1 00:00:03,799 --> 00:00:13,439 Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks, your source of information 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,120 and analysis to help you win your fantasy hockey league. Fuck off, that's 3 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,239 a step hit on, stay lost, goshoot. Here's your hosts, Jesse 4 00:00:22,359 --> 00:00:30,039 sup Here and Victor Nuno Fantasy Hockey Live back to talk fantasy hockey draft around 5 00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:34,479 the corner. And so I am Jesse Severe fan Tracks and joining me a 6 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,520 man who's ready to draft, if he hasn't already drafted all the teams that 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,759 exist in fantasy hockey. It is Victor Nuno, Dapper prospects. Victor, 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,920 how you doing. I'm doing well, Jesse. It's yeah, there are 9 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,880 so many drafts going on. In fact, I got looped into doing a 10 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,159 couple more leagues with the ep Rinkside team. Cam was like, Hey, 11 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,600 we're gonna do this fantasy league. Gus as one of the Fantasy contributors. 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,840 I feel like I have to, right, you gotta be part of that. 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,079 And then the strangest thing that happen and I have never had the first 14 00:01:02,159 --> 00:01:07,920 overall pick in a league since ever, So I got Connor McDavid, which 15 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,760 is both great and terrible because then you're waiting. This league has twenty four 16 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:17,319 teams, so you're waiting several dozen picks for the next one. And I 17 00:01:17,359 --> 00:01:21,439 feel like the teams that get McDavid don't usually win right like that. This 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,280 seems like a thing like I don't see that happening very often. It didually 19 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,840 the teams close for the middle, like four through nine or something. What 20 00:01:26,879 --> 00:01:29,760 do you think about that, Jesse, And how are you? Yeah, 21 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,400 I'm great, I'm great. And that is an interesting point, I would 22 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:38,599 say. And I didn't do any kind of analysis this last year, but 23 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,680 I have to think that the teams that got Connor McDavid last year probably fared 24 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,159 a little bit better than they had in previous years because Connor McDavid put up 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,400 the video game numbers as opposed to just the insanely great numbers last year. 26 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,280 But nonetheless, yeah, it's a long wait. And I hear people talking 27 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,920 about liking to pick on quote the wheel, being able to take two picks. 28 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:04,239 I think that's insane. I'm totally with you. I'm much rather. 29 00:02:04,599 --> 00:02:07,000 I much prefer when I can take in the middle of a round. And 30 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:13,199 no, I never have to watch like all the guys disappear before I pick. 31 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:16,800 It's never that long. Until I pick again. But congratulations on your 32 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:23,000 mcdaviting. Yeah, it's actually interesting because you could pick in this league in 33 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:28,240 the way Cam set it up. You could pick any player like any options, 34 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,759 and so I was basically going Connor either way. I actually debated taking 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,039 the Dard, but I was like, ah, that's crazy at one point 36 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,960 one. But of course Cam took him at six overall, so yeah, 37 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:42,400 he wasn't gonna last that long. Wait, this was a redraft or a 38 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,360 dynasty. It's like a soft dynasty. There are only four minor spots, 39 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,199 so not that many. But it's an inaugural draft, so you could take 40 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:53,479 anyone, so anyone's eligible. So there haven't been too many young, unproven 41 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,080 guys yet. But we're still in the first round. It's saying forever because 42 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,199 there are people all over the world for that work at EP so a lot 43 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:07,120 of people are Norway and Sweden, Finland, so the times are a little 44 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,039 weird. It's gonna it's gonna take a long time, but it's gonna be 45 00:03:09,039 --> 00:03:12,599 fun. It's yeah, it's hard if you're on the other side of the 46 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,840 world to keep up with hockey conversations. One place you could do it, 47 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:19,479 though, Victor. One place you could do it is in our discord because 48 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,199 there are people from all over the world in there, and I imagine awake 49 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:27,759 at insane hours. There's just all kinds of posting in there. I would 50 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,520 recommend hopping in there if you want a community of hockey fans to go back 51 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,120 and forth with all your and it is free. That's what we do. 52 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:40,639 Join the discord by email and Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail dot com or hit 53 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:45,919 us up on x at fan Hockey Life is me at Victor Nuno twelve is 54 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,199 Victor. We'll get you the code that gets you in for free. That's 55 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,159 all there is to it, Victor. That is not the only thing though, 56 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,520 that is with this podcast. We also have a Patreon. Why don't 57 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,400 you tell people what we have available there? Yeah, lots of great stuff 58 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:05,240 there. We have our Patron Priority channel where you can get really extensive exclusive 59 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:10,919 answers and you can as a patron DMI if a lot of people are finding 60 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:15,400 that their team league mates everywhere, but you can get one on one personalized 61 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,240 advice. You can also get our patron casts, our patron our prospect rankings. 62 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:23,079 There's top ten lists that are being done so there's a lot of great 63 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,439 stuff and the Tidy, which is our league that we're doing, is full 64 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,439 now, but you can get your name on the waiting list if you want 65 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:31,759 to compete. Next year we'll open up another division. It'll be super fun, 66 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,079 so definitely get in on that. And if you just enjoy the support 67 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,319 and want to help us out, that would be great because we do pay 68 00:04:39,319 --> 00:04:43,639 for a lot of subscriptions to bring you all this content, so Patreon dot 69 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,319 com Flash Fantasy Hockey Life, that would be fantastic. We are happy to 70 00:04:47,319 --> 00:04:51,079 be part of the fan Tracks podcast network, but more to the point today, 71 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,800 we are also if you hadn't heard, part of the daub podcast network, 72 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,439 you can find all our cool stuff there. Victor writes for dab Or 73 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,040 Prospect and it is Dabber Day today because Victor, You've got an additional very 74 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:09,519 special announcement to make, don't you. That's right. Yeah. Definitely happy 75 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,680 to still be over at Dauber and helping out with the editing that's going on 76 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,439 there and contributing in a couple different ways, and love all the work done 77 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:23,600 at Dauber and having Mike Clifford on today is one of the main writers there. 78 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,879 So they wanted to help us out and do an extra giveaway for the 79 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,439 guide. So if you have for some reason not checked out the Dauber Guide 80 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,639 yet, it's a little late, but it's all good. You can still 81 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:40,560 do that, and we're giving away five more Dauber Ultimate Pack giveaways. These 82 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,439 are really fantastic. You get the prospects, the main fantasy Guide, you 83 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,879 get the spreadsheet with all the ranks, so definitely do that. All you 84 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,120 gotta do to get this is the first five people who hear this and give 85 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:57,319 us a five star review on the podcast aggregator of your choice. That's a 86 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,399 new one. Obviously, send a screenshot and send it to me at Victor 87 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,319 Junior twelve on x or you can email us at Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail 88 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,800 dot com. So just give us a five s review, send it over 89 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,160 and I'll the first five who do that. I will send you one of 90 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:17,600 these awesome Dauber packs for listening. So definitely gotta check that out. Victor. 91 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,319 I sense you have something else to say before we get to the interview 92 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,360 today. What is it? Yeah, just one more thing. I wanted 93 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:29,680 to mention that my work has taken me up to the Vancouver area and we're 94 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,600 gonna meet up a bunch of us that are in leagues together, a bunch 95 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:34,480 of us that in the league that you and I that you started years ago. 96 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:38,399 I've been a lot of people are from the Vancouver areas. I've already 97 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:41,399 connected with some of them. We're going to go to a Vancouver Giants Kamloops 98 00:06:41,439 --> 00:06:43,839 Blazers game, which would be fun, and so any of you that are 99 00:06:43,879 --> 00:06:46,759 in the area and want to join and hang out, that would be super 100 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,600 fun. So this is November third through sixth ish, so if you're in 101 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,399 that area, hit me up. I'd love to say hi. If it 102 00:06:54,399 --> 00:06:59,240 works out great, We'll be right back after this to get into some late 103 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:10,519 round picks. Very pleased to be joined today by our brethren over there at 104 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:15,639 Jobber Hockey. It is Michael Clifford aka Slim Cliffy on X. Michael. 105 00:07:15,639 --> 00:07:18,480 How you doing today? Doing pretty good? Beautiful weather this weekend. We 106 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:23,240 had that hurricane land here last weekend ended up not being too bad. It 107 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:26,279 was just more a lot of rain than anything. This weekend it's just been 108 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:30,120 beautiful sunshine and nice enough weather where you can still wear shorts. Just trying 109 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,680 to enjoy as much of it as I can. Are you up in Wait? 110 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,360 Wait where did the hurricane land? I'm oblivious to this the Maritimes. 111 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:40,680 I'm in New Brunswick on the east coast. Oh okay, it veered towards 112 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:44,240 the east in the last twelve to sixteen hours or whatever, and so it 113 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:46,959 landed more Nova Scotia and we just got a lot of the rains. Bad 114 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:53,079 for Nova Scotia, but good for us. Yeah, yeah, definitely. 115 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:57,279 So we're super excited to have you on. And what I asked and you 116 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:00,959 delivered is we would like some guys. We wanted to talk about some sort 117 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:03,519 of light round steals, right, so thinking redrafts, guys that are going 118 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:11,079 after around ten and when the twelve team league, So trying to mind some 119 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,800 value here and some guys that can be available later that might be really valuable. 120 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,000 And also maybe some of these guys in your keeper dynasty you might want 121 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,680 to trade for maybe they have some untapped hidden upside. So that's a premise 122 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:26,759 of how we want to kind of frame these. Trying to find some late 123 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,519 some gems for everyone, and so we'll go through these. We haven't broken 124 00:08:31,559 --> 00:08:33,919 down into guys from the West and the East. So we'll start in the 125 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,720 West, and we'll start with one of my absolute favorite players, and that's 126 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:43,399 Bow and buy him. And he shot fifteen percent last year, which is 127 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,440 a pretty interesting stat from his forty two games played, burying him off established 128 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,840 himself with a full NHL season. He keeps getting injured, but he did 129 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:56,039 successfully increase both his time on ice and power play. Time on ice did 130 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,879 buy him and with that increase, just about everything else went along with it. 131 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,039 Well, we might expect a smidgelower on the shot percent. We it 132 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,399 is safe to expect to continue to grow from every other column if he can 133 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,360 manage a full or near full season, which has been difficult, plus the 134 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,159 twenty minutes plus time on ice. What do you think we can expect from 135 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:18,080 Byrom? He seems I actually know you just wrote an article about this, 136 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,799 if I'm not mistaken, so I know you're very familiar. And let us 137 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,320 know what we can maybe expect from byronim even though he's so talented, is 138 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,120 he ever really going to fully deliver on the goods with what he can produce? 139 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,200 Mike, Yeah, shameless plug time. I did have an article about 140 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,960 bow and Byrom up at Elite Prospects rinksidep rinkside dot com for anybody that's remember 141 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:43,000 over there, had that go up on Tuesday, And obviously the first thing 142 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,519 that, like you mentioned is the concussions. You just got to hope that 143 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,080 he's it's something that he can move past. We saw that with Sidney Crosby 144 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,120 a decade ago, right, It took him pretty much a year and a 145 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:58,759 half two years to get right, and then after that he never really had 146 00:09:58,759 --> 00:10:01,919 issues. So let's hope it's the same thing for by him. Aside from 147 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,480 that, he just really jumped out at me in the twenty twenty two playoffs 148 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:11,480 on a team with Nathan McKinnon and Kale mccarr and all those guys. He 149 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,360 was a guy I found was noticeable basically game in and game out. And 150 00:10:16,399 --> 00:10:22,919 if you dig into some of his tracking numbers, Cory Sneger tracks zone entries 151 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,879 and types of passes and things like that. If you look at what Byrom 152 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:31,799 does, it's he does a little bit of everything, and what he does 153 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:37,159 is exceptional. He's exceptional at entering the offensive zone with control of the puck, 154 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,919 which isn't something a lot of defensemen do. There are defensemen that will 155 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:45,279 move the puck out of their zone but not necessarily be the ones to carry 156 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,639 it in. He does that quite a bit, and that makes them almost 157 00:10:48,639 --> 00:10:52,840 like a fourth forward at times more rather than a defenseman on the blue line. 158 00:10:52,879 --> 00:10:56,120 I think that's why he had double digits shooting percentages in both in both 159 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:01,879 the last two seasons. He's getting himself into good shooting positions. So that's 160 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,879 one thing that immediately stood out for me with Byrom, And the other thing 161 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,360 is a lot of people might I shouldn't say a lot of people. Some 162 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:16,720 people might assume that his inflated per minute point rates right, like he doesn't 163 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:20,360 have huge point totals because he typically hasn't played huge minutes up until this season. 164 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:24,600 But on a per minute basis, he's typically been very good, like 165 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:31,120 easily a number one defenseman by production. And what's easy to think it might 166 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:33,480 just be a product of playing with Nathan McKinnon and Miko Ranton and all that, 167 00:11:33,519 --> 00:11:37,320 But when I looked at his numbers, even if you take out all 168 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,399 the minutes he's played with Nathan McKinnon, he's still produced at a top pair 169 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,360 rate for defenseman. So all you're waiting for is for him to getting up 170 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,360 to nearly twenty two minutes last season was nice. Hopefully he can get up 171 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,519 to twenty three or twenty four this year. We'll find out. I have 172 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,120 my doubts, but we'll find out. So there's just a lot of good 173 00:11:56,159 --> 00:12:00,240 here, a lot of offensive talent, and like I said, it's something 174 00:12:00,279 --> 00:12:01,840 that can turn him into a fourth forward on the ice. Obviously, there 175 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,679 are a lot of problems in the fantasy game though, number one being Kale 176 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:09,639 mccarr. It's great that they're both on the same team. I'm sure Avalanche 177 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,679 fans are pretty happy with that, but it provides that immediate roadblock for power 178 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,919 play one time at any point in the next three or four years. Right, 179 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,960 So unless Kale mccarr gets seriously injured or they saw for some reason go 180 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:28,039 with a three four two defenseman set up, barronim's not getting top power play 181 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,559 time anytime soon. Like we're looking at twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven, 182 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,519 and with the NHL's increased focus on power play efficiency and power play opportunities 183 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:39,559 and all that, you need those power play points from a defenseman, like 184 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:46,919 you'll have very few real high end fantasy defenseman with nine power play points or 185 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,039 eleven power play points or something like that. They're all up and around twenty 186 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,600 five now, So until he gets that time, he won't reach his fantasy 187 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:58,279 upside. And then the other problem is his shot volume. Like he does 188 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,000 get himself into good shooting because Asians, but he doesn't create a lot of 189 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,600 shots himself, and that's a good thing for the team. I think on 190 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:07,840 a team with all that quality of forwards, you want the forwards taking the 191 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,360 shots, not the defenseman. But that's not what we want in the fantasy 192 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:16,679 games. So it's that divergent thing where I think Byron. I think right 193 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,559 now he's a top pairer defenseman and it gives Colorado arguably the best top four 194 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:26,799 defenseman in the league. But until until he starts shooting more, he won't 195 00:13:26,879 --> 00:13:31,960 have a lot of value in fantasy for the next few years. And until 196 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 he can get that top power play role, he won't reach his fantasy upside. 197 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,120 So it's one of those things where he's just going to be a lot 198 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:41,320 more valuable in real life than he will be in the fantasy game. Yeah. 199 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,240 No, I totally agree with that, and it is I'm sure all 200 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:48,440 Avalanche fans and coaches are like, shoot more, right, But like you 201 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,960 said, he creates so many opportunities, and I agree with you too. 202 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,679 I think in that Cup he was the X factor. I'm not saying he 203 00:13:54,759 --> 00:13:58,360 was the best player, but he was the X factor, Like he was 204 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:01,960 the one that no one could match up against because of the incredible depth and 205 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,080 all of that. Yeah, but I do think he has had two seasons 206 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,080 now very low games played, but close to a fifty point pace, and 207 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,279 I feel like he can He has the talent to get over that if he 208 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,279 shoots a little bit more, gets a little bit smid more of the power 209 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,440 play time, and maybe they put him up there as a fourth forward type 210 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,159 of slot on the power play. That's not inconceivable, but I think the 211 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:24,960 upside is there right in order to take taking him a little bit later, 212 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,120 you could be really rewarded. Especially. The other thing is that mccarr has 213 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:33,480 also not been someone who can stay completely healthy. Yeah, exactly, And 214 00:14:33,559 --> 00:14:37,200 that's why there will be times when Barram has tremendous fantasy value because if mccarr, 215 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:41,679 let's say he pulls a hamstring and he's out for three weeks. Those 216 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,519 three weeks, Bain barm is probably a top fifteen fantasy defenseman, right, 217 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,919 it's just can you draft him knowing that maybe you get fifteen games the top 218 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,840 power play time and then the rest of the time he just gets very little. 219 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:58,480 It's just a matter of is there any upside to that pick? Because 220 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,320 I was king at his ADP and underdog Fantasy, which they do best balls, 221 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:07,759 and it's maybe it's not the best for season long fantasy gauge in gauging, 222 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,879 but they have done a lot of drafts, so there's some reliable ADP 223 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:18,240 data, and he's going just inside the top fifty defenseman, and I think 224 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:20,840 that's good value. But I'm wondering how much higher can he get them the 225 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,320 twenty fifth or thirtieth defenseman, right, even if he gets fifteen games of 226 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:30,320 top power play time, just because there are guys that will get seventy or 227 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,120 seventy five or eighty games of that, and even in Colorado, it's just 228 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:35,639 not enough to make up the difference. It's that thing where I don't think 229 00:15:35,679 --> 00:15:39,879 it's bad value, but I don't think it's one of those guys where unless 230 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,200 mccarr suffers a serious injury where we're looking back at the end of the season 231 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,600 and wondering how did baum Byron end up the number seventh fantasy defenseman. I 232 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:50,759 don't think that's something that's going to happen. Next up Jamie Drysdale. I 233 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:54,320 can't think of the last guy, at least in my world, who went 234 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,000 from the chosen one to an afterthought more quickly than this Anaheim defenseman. He's 235 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:03,080 a tough one because he only played eight games last year, suffered a shoulder 236 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,879 injury at the beginning of the season. Surgery took him out for the year. 237 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,240 No points in those eight games. We do like to talk about a 238 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:15,159 couple of hot defensive prospects coming up in the rearview mirror on Anaheim who maybe 239 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:18,919 could overtake Drysdale for a role. Some would say he didn't get very much 240 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,919 bash, block shots, hits in his one full season prior to last year, 241 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,159 either touted prospect coming in to a team on the upswing. I know 242 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,879 a recent thirty two thought spot they were interviewing Troy Terry and he predicted that 243 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:36,519 Drysdale would be a breakout, if not the breakout on this team this year. 244 00:16:36,559 --> 00:16:38,720 What do you expecting from Drysdale this year? What makes him one of 245 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,440 what of your targets. Yeah, I think the first thing to mention about 246 00:16:44,519 --> 00:16:47,759 him is the fact that in his rookie season, when he actually did play 247 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:52,559 a lot of games, he played more minutes in a four forward, one 248 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:55,840 defenseman power play set up than anybody else on the roster. And that's when 249 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:59,559 Kevin Shattenkirk was still there. And obviously they they used Cam Fowler on the 250 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,559 power play. He was playing more forward one defenseman power play minutes than either 251 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,359 of those guys, so obviously they saw something in him, even as a 252 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,039 rookie two years ago, different GM, different coaching staff and all that. 253 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:15,160 So he has to prove himself all over again. But even with Kevin shaddon 254 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,079 Kirk at the stage that he was of his career, and with Cam Fowler 255 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,240 not being a high end offensive defenseman, for a rookie to step in and 256 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:29,720 take those top power play minutes right away should tell us a lot about what 257 00:17:29,759 --> 00:17:33,519 that coaching staff thought of him. Now that coaching staff to get fired. 258 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,960 Maybe not the ideal expert opinion, but I'm always a big proponent of how 259 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:45,279 is this player being used? More than relying strictly on my scouting abilities, 260 00:17:45,319 --> 00:17:48,240 because I have to assume they are going to be cases, maybe a lot 261 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:52,119 of cases where the coaching staff is going to see a lot more from the 262 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,440 player than I will. And if they saw power play one ability and him 263 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,240 as a rookie two years ago, I have to think they're going to use 264 00:17:59,319 --> 00:18:03,640 him power play one again this season. Maybe it's not right out of the 265 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,039 gate. Maybe Cam Fowler gets sometimes get Drysdale east in under a new coach 266 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,640 was there's some new players that weren't around a couple of years ago, those 267 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,279 types of things. But I certainly expect by the end of the season for 268 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,960 Drysdale to have the most power play minutes per game of anybody on this team. 269 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,680 And he's just one of those guys that can do it all at such 270 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,400 a young age, and not all of it is too an elite level yet, 271 00:18:25,519 --> 00:18:29,519 but when you see the building blocks starting, he's good in transition, 272 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,200 he has good playmaking data. He was solid defensively even on even as a 273 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,119 rookie on a pretty terrible Ducks team. There was just a lot of good. 274 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,160 Not a ton of great, but just a lot of good. And 275 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,759 when you have a lot of good as a rookie defenseman on a bad team 276 00:18:44,799 --> 00:18:48,200 like that, I think that speaks volumes as well him playing as well as 277 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,119 he did as a rookie, and I think when you talk about forgotten prospects, 278 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:53,440 I think part of it is you're playing in Anaheim, right. The 279 00:18:53,519 --> 00:18:56,960 Anaheim Ducks have just been a very bad team for about four or five years 280 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,279 now. They're on the West Coast, games at eleven thirty at night where 281 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:04,720 I live ten thirty Eastern, So there's just not a lot of people that 282 00:19:04,799 --> 00:19:07,599 season. If you're even if you're a big hockey fan, if you have 283 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,680 to get up for work at six in the morning, you're not staying up 284 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:12,319 until one am to watch the Anaheim Ducks, you know what I mean. 285 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,920 I just think a lot of people just haven't weren't able to watch him play. 286 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,200 And it's tough to heap praise on players for a bottom five team in 287 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,559 the league, no matter how well they play. So I think it's a 288 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:29,079 confluence of things. Where he was a rookie, so obviously he won't get 289 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,279 as much shine as maybe some veterans. It was a bad team, there's 290 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:36,400 been some tumultuous offseason stuff between the coaches and the GMS and all that. 291 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,839 I think there's just been so much stuff going on, being with him only 292 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:41,680 playing eight games last year, it's easier to forget about him. But I 293 00:19:41,759 --> 00:19:45,440 guess I agree with Troy Terry. I think by the end of the season, 294 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:48,880 people are going to look back and wonder how they missed this breakout season 295 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:55,559 from Jamie Drysdale coming by the same token as you mentioned when we were talking 296 00:19:55,559 --> 00:20:00,599 about Ball and Byram, and again here with Drysdale is the peripheral numbers aren't 297 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:04,279 there yet, and that's a that's a big problem in fantasy. But if 298 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:07,559 you have goals, assist power, play, points, shots, hits, 299 00:20:07,559 --> 00:20:10,680 and blocks, peripherals are half the categories in your league, right. He 300 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,200 can't be a negative drag there and expect to have a lot of fantasy values. 301 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,559 I think he could break out and have the forty five point season or 302 00:20:18,599 --> 00:20:21,599 something like that this year. I'm just not sure that the peripherals would be 303 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:26,839 there for a really good fantasy season in those multiicat formats anybody that's playing points 304 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,960 only leagues. Like I said, I do think he can have a forty 305 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,160 five point season. I was just looking at my projections right before we came 306 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:38,200 on. I have him for forty one and I think there's upside beyond that. 307 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,200 It's just a matter of Kenny bring the shots and the blocks and the 308 00:20:41,279 --> 00:20:45,079 hits. We didn't see that in his rookie season, we didn't see much 309 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,480 of it in his brief stint last year. We had to see it before 310 00:20:48,519 --> 00:20:51,160 we can believe it, and young guys will grow into that role. But 311 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,039 he's one of those guys where I wouldn't be shocked if he has forty five 312 00:20:53,079 --> 00:20:56,400 points, but he's not a top forty defenseman in multiicat leagues because he just 313 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:03,440 won't put up the peripherals to do it. Definitely always an issue with Drysdale, 314 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,680 and yeah, I'm eager to see how he does. He has it's 315 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,480 been hard to separate the terribleness of the Ducks with the potential of Drysdale, 316 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:14,880 so I'm emager to see. Hopefully that will change. But one guy who 317 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,680 does usually bring the PRIs is the next guy we're going to talk about, 318 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,480 and that's Naz and Cadre. And a lot has been said about Calgary season 319 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:25,799 last year, breaking in all the about all the wrong ways it could have. 320 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:29,799 It's hard to address players on that roster without acknowledging a coaching change, 321 00:21:29,799 --> 00:21:33,440 which seems to be in that positive. But from a dynasty perspective, the 322 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,480 supporting cast round Cadre continue to hold someone certainty, I would say, most 323 00:21:37,519 --> 00:21:41,359 substantially the powerplay one linement alias Lindholm. There's some lesser known quantities that may 324 00:21:41,519 --> 00:21:45,720 be able to crack the lineup soon that I'm excited about, like Peltier and 325 00:21:45,839 --> 00:21:49,880 Coronado both could get some time on Cadre's wing. Last season, Cadre played 326 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,640 all eighty two games for only the second time in his career, and where 327 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,279 his points were points per game were effectively right around his career average of point 328 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:02,519 six eight. And the new and a year of building coming to you with 329 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:04,920 Hubertou and Anderstand on the power play, maybe that can improve a little bit. 330 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,720 But what do you think we can expect from Caudri in his second year 331 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:12,160 wearing that see in Calgary. Yeah, I'm glad you had mentioned that he 332 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:15,640 just went pretty much right back to career norms, because that was the first 333 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,480 thing I was going to say. If you look at his monster season in 334 00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:23,119 Colorado, the twenty one twenty two season, the big jump was in the 335 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,839 assists. It's not like he had in the forty three goal season or whatever. 336 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,039 Right, he didn't even get to the thirty goal mark. The big 337 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:33,079 thing was that he got to fifty nine assists, which was like thirty assists 338 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:37,759 clear of his previous career I or something like that. Last year was just 339 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,839 returned down to normal. The reason I want to talk about Cadre is just 340 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,640 where his ADPs are Over on Underdog Fantasy, he's going as the thirty fifth 341 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,880 center, which, if you want to gauge it by other positions gone, 342 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,920 he's probably going outside the top one hundred and twenty five picks. If you 343 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,920 look over on ESPN, they have him as one hundred and thirty first forward 344 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,680 off the board. And we think of last year as like a down year 345 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,079 for him or whatever. He did only score twenty four goals despite playing all 346 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,319 eighty two games. As you said, he was still a top eighty four 347 00:23:11,559 --> 00:23:17,519 by ESPN's player rankings by their default setups. So even in what was a 348 00:23:17,599 --> 00:23:22,240 regression year for him, he was still like a number seven, number eight 349 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,799 forward in twelve team leagues. So, as you said, if there's another 350 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:29,319 year of chemistry, if the power plays a little bit better, I think 351 00:23:29,599 --> 00:23:34,160 the power play is something that that we probably should have seen coming last year. 352 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,799 But it does make a huge difference. He went from Colorado in twenty 353 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,960 and two years ago, who led the league in power play opportunities per game, 354 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,519 and I don't think it was particularly close either. They're like point two 355 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:51,319 opportunities higher than the next closest team, which is a lot. He went 356 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,039 from that to the middle of the pack, and that's a lot of power 357 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:56,960 play time miss. It's about a minute per game, and when average that 358 00:23:57,039 --> 00:24:00,880 out by what he can produce, that's five or six power play points lost 359 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:06,720 just by power play opportunity differences. And that's nothing to do with what happens 360 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,720 on the ice when the power play actually starts. That's just what the team 361 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:12,240 does it even strength, unless they start drawing some more penalties, I think 362 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,759 they'll be in tough And I think the other thing that he said about maybe 363 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:21,359 a lack of supporting cast around him does hurt. I've seen in training camp 364 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,960 so far they've had Huberto up with Elia Slnholme, which would tell me Manchapani's 365 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,799 probably playing with Cadgrey. But then who's the third guys. It gonna be 366 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:32,279 like Blake Coleman or de la Dube or is it going to be? I 367 00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:34,680 saw pell Jay's playing with Kevin Rooney, so it doesn't seem like Jacob Pellichay's 368 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:38,960 very high on their depth chart right now. So it is who are as 369 00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:42,119 linemates are going to be. I think that is a really big question. 370 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,359 But he can bring so many shots, and he was flirted with one hundred 371 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,960 hits last year. Even if he only puts up eighty, that's fine. 372 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:52,160 If you can put up two hundred and forty shots, eighty hits, twenty 373 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,359 five goals, thirty assists, that's probably that's easily a top one hundred four 374 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,839 in most fantasy for at top seventy five, depending on how your scoring goes. 375 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,519 I just think it's not that unpredicting, like he'll return to form and 376 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,440 push ninety points or something like that. I just think that he's just a 377 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,359 tremendous value based by his ADPs right now, where he doesn't really even have 378 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,119 to improve on last year to pay off where he's being drafted, and I 379 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,160 think he's definitely one of those guys that you want to grab at the end 380 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,240 of the draft. Maybe you have some injury risks at center, maybe you 381 00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:26,559 have some guys that are unproven, you're not sure how they'll do. Not 382 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,640 a bad idea to grab Kadrie if you're in some medium size twelve team league 383 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,839 towards the end of the draft, just as a safety valve that you can 384 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,680 plug in case things go wrong with the guys that you did pick higher than 385 00:25:34,759 --> 00:25:41,079 him. Jacob McDonald, this one's a pole. Michael I like this one. 386 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,119 He's been a journeyman in his pro career, a San Jose defenseman. 387 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,880 He's average twelve fifty average timinis in one hundred and one NHL games. Enters 388 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,599 this season at age thirty, and his games played have been spread over four 389 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,960 years on three franchises. Eighteen points in those hundred and one games, with 390 00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:03,039 a shot and hit per game. What is getting mister McDonald onto your radar? 391 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:07,359 What are you expecting from him this year? I've heard of writing about 392 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,240 fantasy hockey means you have to write about all thirty two teams, but unfortunately 393 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:15,160 that includes the San Jose Sharks this year. It's just a lack of options 394 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,480 on the blue line. Eric Carlson's gone and there's just no one else around. 395 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,240 Henry Throne is the prospect that everybody is talking about. It and I 396 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:26,039 agree he is the power play defenseman of the future for them. How far 397 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:29,160 into the future, I guess we'll find out. It might only be a 398 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,319 year or two. But there's two things that I think hurt Thron's case, 399 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:37,640 at least for game one of the regular season to be the top power play 400 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,440 defenseman. First is, the team has eight NHL defenseman under contract. Now 401 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,559 they have the cap space to just wave somebody and stuff them in the HL 402 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,799 or whatever, so they can do that if Thron pushes his way onto the 403 00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:52,839 team. But that kind of tells me that maybe Throne starts in the HL 404 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,680 this season, maybe something like Cam York did last year, which has spend 405 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,480 maybe October November or half November at first ten or fifteen games with and then 406 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:03,720 gets called up. The other thing about McDonald is he actually got the second 407 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:08,319 most power play minutes behind Eric Carlson last year in San Jose, which there 408 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:11,000 are a lot of times Eric Carlson was just playing both halves of the power 409 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:15,880 play anyway, So what the second most power play minutes in San Jose were 410 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,279 worth. It wasn't very much, but they did that because he was running 411 00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:22,240 the power plays in the HL, and he had done that for years for 412 00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:25,960 the Bear not only for the Barracout, but wherever else he was. I 413 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,920 think it was Colorado last year, the Colorado Eagles last year. So he 414 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,720 was running the power play in the HL, and if you look at his 415 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,400 goal scoring, he had something like sixty goals in two hundred and thirty HL 416 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:41,279 games. Like this was a defenseman that can score goals. I don't think 417 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:44,799 he can do that at the NHL level, but clearly, at least in 418 00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:48,480 the minors, the coaches saw something in him to run power plays and to 419 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:52,359 do a year after year, and then the San Jose Sharks saw the same 420 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,319 thing when he made his way over from Colorado to where he was running the 421 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,519 second power play and whenever Eric Carlson needed a little rest. So I think 422 00:27:59,559 --> 00:28:03,119 he's first in line just to jump up to the top power play at least 423 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,240 to start the season, maybe the fifteen or twenty games. And the thing 424 00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:10,480 is he's You're right, he is a journeyman. But if you look at 425 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:14,240 some of his metrics, they're not that bad. Like he has like good 426 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,480 zone exit numbers, which means he can help move the pop cleanly and has 427 00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:22,920 been able to show it to do that in small samples, whether in Colorado 428 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,200 or in San Jose. Less so in Colorado obviously, but if you're playing 429 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,599 with Devin Taves and kil McCarry and mombarro and those guys are going to be 430 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:34,000 doing it for you, right. But he was also good defensively, so 431 00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:37,440 I think this is a guy who at least can make the first pass, 432 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,920 who's good at his own end, and has run in ram power plays for 433 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,599 years in the HL. I think Jacob McDonald is one of those guys that 434 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,839 could maybe have the power plays through October and November before Throne comes up and 435 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,559 takes it from him. Maybe he just keeps it the whole season. But 436 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,279 I think considering he's going to be free in almost any draft you do, 437 00:28:55,559 --> 00:29:00,920 outside of drafts that are five hundred players deep for a deep or type format, 438 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,519 I think he's the guy to have as a last defenseman on the bench. 439 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,000 What the top power play guy in San Jose is actually worth. It 440 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,519 may not be a lot, might only be ten or twelve points over the 441 00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:12,200 course of the season, but those power play points are better than nothing when 442 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,759 you need when you when you're looking at your seventh three defenseman in a sixteen 443 00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:22,759 team league or something like that. Yeah, I appreciate this take. I 444 00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:26,079 also think that it might not be worth that much because it might just be 445 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,039 so dire there. And I know that Quinn was talking just yesterday as we're 446 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:34,920 recording this about all options are on the table and even five forwards. So 447 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,200 it's definitely he might get the role and run with it. It might be 448 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,799 really good, and you're not investing much either way, so if it's not 449 00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:45,559 good, you can always drop him. It's no big deal. But yeah, 450 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,799 I like, I'm eager to see how it plays out. The next 451 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:51,519 guy, I'm really eager to see how he can do, and that's Marco 452 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:56,759 Rossi. According to Michael Russo, Rossi changed his skating stride in the offseason 453 00:29:56,799 --> 00:30:00,720 put on fifteen pounds of muscle. He is not a very tall guy that 454 00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:04,240 maybe I'm not sure where all that muscle went, but his legs are very 455 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,759 strong and powerful, and a lot was made in the in the off season 456 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:12,480 about the single assist he had in just in nineteen NHL games, But I 457 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:17,160 thought he showed pretty well. Did Rossi in his limited opportunity. He's been 458 00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:19,200 killing it in the HL for the past two seasons, but just twenty one 459 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:23,519 NHL games under his belt. The centers ahead of him are Hartman, Jill 460 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:29,640 Ericson Eck and Frederick Goodreau. I don't think these are insurmountable roadblocks. So 461 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,880 what do you think we can expect from Rossi this season? Mike Yeah. 462 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,160 I have to say it was a little disheartening to see Ryan Hartman back up 463 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,079 with Kaprazoff for the first day of training camp and Rossi was I think he 464 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:45,480 was with Marcus Felino on what would be their third line. But I don't 465 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,279 I agree with you. I don't think it would take a lot for Rossy 466 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:55,759 to overtake Hartman and be the center for Kirol Kaprasoff. I think there's obviously 467 00:30:55,799 --> 00:30:59,279 there's a really good reason why it's probably going to take him this long to 468 00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:02,960 really make a him packed at the NHL. Like you can't like with bow 469 00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:04,599 and Byron, where you can't talk about him without talking about concussions, I 470 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,759 don't think you can talk about Rossi without talking about the COVID complications he had. 471 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:14,759 When you're nineteen twenty years old and you lose an entire year of development 472 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,440 because of a health problem, and it's not like where it was a broken 473 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:19,839 leg, where all you need is just the bone to heal and then you're 474 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,279 right back at it. I think anybody that's had issues with COVID would probably 475 00:31:23,279 --> 00:31:27,400 be able to tell you that even if you're quote over it, you're still 476 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:33,119 not quite one hundred percent healthy. And there's a big difference between somebody and 477 00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:37,039 a forty five year old accountant going to work and a twenty year old going 478 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:40,359 to play in the best hockey league in the world. You have to be 479 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,240 at your absolute peat physical ability to do well, and I'm wondering if it 480 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:49,200 didn't take him even another year to really get back to where he needed to 481 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,559 be, And I think that's why he added so much muscle in one offseason, 482 00:31:53,599 --> 00:31:57,640 basically the first time he's really I'm thinking it's basically the first time he's 483 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,200 really been able to be himself in the off season in a number of years 484 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:07,920 now, and I think we should probably be a little bit more lenient with 485 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,920 him because of that. Like I said, it's not as if he just 486 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,519 broke his ankle and needed to come back in six months or something like that. 487 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:19,440 It was the fact that it took him at least six months to get 488 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,960 back on the ice, let alone get back to where he should be as 489 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:28,319 a player. And I'm with you. I thought he looked fine in his 490 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,240 brief stint. Obviously he didn't excel production wise, but if you can produce 491 00:32:32,279 --> 00:32:36,960 as well as he did in the HL, be as highly touted as he 492 00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:38,880 is, show as well as he has just about everywhere that he's gone, 493 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,559 I have to think that it was just playing against the lower competition made it 494 00:32:43,599 --> 00:32:47,200 easier for him, even though he wasn't in his peak physical condition. Hopefully 495 00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:52,319 now he is. I think he's a guy if there's a guy that's gonna 496 00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:57,359 push Connorbert Dart for the Calder Trophy. If Connorbert Dart for whatever reason has 497 00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:00,359 a bad season, maybe he has an injury, it keeps him out thirty 498 00:33:00,359 --> 00:33:02,559 games, like happened with Connor McDavid's rookie year or something like that, I 499 00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:06,279 think Rossi's one of the guys that can win the Calder Trophy because, like 500 00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:08,440 you said, there's not that much for robe. They don't want to use 501 00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:13,079 Joel Eric Sinec with Carol Kaprizoff because they want to use Eric Sink in a 502 00:33:13,119 --> 00:33:15,160 shutdown role because that's what he sells at and he is one of the best, 503 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,680 one of the best in the league at it. All he has to 504 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,519 do really is overtake Ryan Hartman, and I like Hartman as a player. 505 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:23,720 I've liked him for a long time. I don't think he's not a top 506 00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:28,200 line center. I think Rossy is, and I don't think it'll be very 507 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,720 long before Rossi is not only skating with kaprisoff at even strike but also on 508 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:36,480 the power play. I think he just has tremendous, tremendous upside for the 509 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:39,319 season. He's still just He's only turning twenty two years old this weekend, 510 00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:43,440 and if you think that he lost at least one year, if not two, 511 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:49,640 of development to those complications that he had, basically he's basically where he's 512 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,640 at where he should have been as a twenty year old right now. I 513 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,720 just think the world of him. I think he's just a tremendous player that 514 00:33:54,759 --> 00:33:59,079 just really needed some time to get his health right, and it appears that 515 00:33:59,119 --> 00:34:02,559 he's in that place now. He's one of those guys that I think he's 516 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,079 could be a I think he could be a threat for the Calder Trophy, 517 00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:08,800 even if the Dart stays healthy, because if Rossi ends up on kil Kapazov's 518 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,800 line by the end of October, he could easily have a sixty point season. 519 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:19,960 If not a lot more Taylor Hall, he's gonna turn thirty to the 520 00:34:20,079 --> 00:34:22,760 season. Mike, former number one overall pick, is on his sixth NHL 521 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:29,559 franchise, looking to play likely some first line left wing for the Chicago Blackhawks. 522 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,360 He's been over a point per game only four times in his NHL career. 523 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:37,280 Can you believe that in last in an injury marred twenty eighteen nineteen. 524 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,639 If you want to count that short season, that shouldn't be a knock on 525 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:44,280 the guy. What do we expect? But it just surprises me. He's 526 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,519 got a Heart Trophy in his case, and he played a complimentary role, 527 00:34:46,559 --> 00:34:51,079 more of a depth role for the Bruins last couple of years. Likely back 528 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,760 in the Lime Light, probably going to be on a lot of national TV 529 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:59,559 playing next to Connor Bedard in the near future. What are you expecting out 530 00:34:59,559 --> 00:35:04,199 of Taylor Hall this year? How should he be valued in fantasy hockey? 531 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,199 So? I think his stint in Boston I think could mislead a lot of 532 00:35:08,199 --> 00:35:10,800 people when it comes to Taylor Hall because, like you said, he was 533 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:15,239 more of a support role. He wasn't in a feature role. He played 534 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,239 three minutes less per game in Boston than he did in New Jersey. And 535 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,079 that's just a bassive difference, right, Like you're losing fifteen percent, if 536 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:27,440 not more, of your ice time. It's gonna just nuke your totals. 537 00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:32,800 The other thing about Taylor Hall is like byrom you want to separate out his 538 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,760 production by line meets, And I did that over at Dauber Hockey a couple 539 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,800 of weeks ago. I looked at his production in Boston when he was playing 540 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,559 with David Pasternak and his production in Boston when he was playing with anybody else. 541 00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:49,800 And when he was playing with David Pasternak, he put up the same 542 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,239 points per minute rate as Miko Ranton in Colorado. When he wasn't playing with 543 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:59,599 Pasternak, it was more like Brian rust type production. And the reason for 544 00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:01,239 that is when he wasn't playing with David Pasternak, he was in the bottom 545 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:06,159 six, right, he was playing with Charlie Coyle and Trent Frederick and Aj 546 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,559 Greer and all these guys like not bad players, but obviously not David Pasternach 547 00:36:09,599 --> 00:36:16,679 can Patrice Bergeron. So one thing I always try to remember about players when 548 00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:21,440 I'm doing any type of analysis. It's something I heard years ago, and 549 00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:25,239 it's it goes like this, It's there are no harder minutes for a hockey 550 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:30,679 player than minutes played with bad line mates. And not that those guys in 551 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,599 Boston are bad players, obviously they're very good players. But they're not David 552 00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:37,039 Pasternak, they're not Brad Marsh and they're not Patrice Bergeron, and they're not 553 00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:42,320 connorber Dark. And I don't know why people are, Like I've seen Connorbert 554 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,719 Dark go twentieth overall in a Best Ball draft, which is absolutely absurd. 555 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,920 To pay that off, you would need probably a forty five You would need 556 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,639 to taste Thompson season like he had last year, like forty five goals, 557 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:58,480 forty five assists or something like that. If people think connorber Dark can do 558 00:36:58,559 --> 00:37:02,039 that, then why is Hall going like two hundred and thirtieth or whatever it 559 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:07,000 is. He's the fifty second winger off the board by adp On underdog, 560 00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:10,960 the one hundred and twenty sixth forward, so a bench forward in a twelve 561 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,599 team league depending on how many how many forwards you start. If Connorbert Dart 562 00:37:16,679 --> 00:37:20,320 is going to have a forty or forty five goal season, which is like 563 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,039 a bad pastor NACT season. Like I just said, Taylor Hall produced similarly 564 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:29,599 to Miko Ranton in on a per minute basis with David Pasternach. Why can't 565 00:37:29,679 --> 00:37:32,719 Hall do that with the dark? So I think this could be a season 566 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,280 where we look back and Taylor Hall finishes with twenty two goals and seventy three 567 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,000 points or something like that, and we all think where did that come from? 568 00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:42,480 And it's going to be the fact that he's playing nineteen minutes a night, 569 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,760 that he's playing with connorber Dart and even strengthened on the power play. 570 00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:49,440 The only thing for him is being able to stay healthy. He wasn't able 571 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,800 to last year. He was able to the year before. If we can 572 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,639 get eighty games out of him, I definitely think Taylor Hall can reach seventy 573 00:37:54,639 --> 00:38:00,880 point mark. Yeah, I agree, I agree to Like in redraft, 574 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,840 Connor Berdard is not someone I'm probably gonna touch. He's just going way too 575 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,159 high. I'm gonna draft right now, We're at pick thirty three and he's 576 00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:12,960 still there and he probably won't be there too much longer. But I'm not 577 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,360 going to take him because, yeah, the options there are too good. 578 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:20,400 But his linemates and the peripheral cast, I think you gotta bump up a 579 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,320 little bit because they can see some tremendous value there. So definitely agree with 580 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,920 that. Let's talk about the second to last one here in the West, 581 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,920 and this is a goalie, Joel Hofer, and he's twenty three years old, 582 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:36,039 six foot five, coming into his third season getting He was mainly getting 583 00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:39,599 HL staffs, but he did see some NHL action last season. Over three 584 00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:45,760 seasons in Utica and Springfield, Hofer improved his GA and saved percentage each year. 585 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,079 He managed the six NHL starts, as I mentioned, winning three of 586 00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:52,400 his first four games and that fourth one being a shootout loss. The last 587 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,679 two games Hofer would probably like to have back, especially the one on March 588 00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,119 twenty six where he got run out of the crease with five goals and six 589 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,440 hundred sixteen by the Kings. Certainly, we know that Bennington has been trending 590 00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:07,800 down and the last basically since he won the Cup, and he's been pretty 591 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,840 bad, but he does have the contract. I'm just wondering, though, 592 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,800 do you think, Mike, that Joel Hofer can pull up Bennington on Jordan 593 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,280 Bennington. Yeah, I'm glad you put it like that because I think that's 594 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,280 exactly what I had to mind here, is that he'll do to Bennington with 595 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,800 Bennington did to Jake allenback when they made their Cup run. You're right that 596 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,880 Bennington has that big contract, so obviously they want to try to make it 597 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,480 work with him. But I also think if you read any of the GM's 598 00:39:31,559 --> 00:39:35,880 quotes, like the GM had quotes this week, it was he said something 599 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,599 like, we have no equity left with the organization, with our fans, 600 00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:43,039 like the Cup was four years ago. Now, we haven't won much since. 601 00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:45,760 We have to get back to our winning ways. They went got Kevin 602 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,000 Hayes in the offseason. Now, while going to get Kevin Hayes doesn't don't 603 00:39:49,039 --> 00:39:52,400 start playing the parade, what it does tell me is that they wanted to 604 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,639 reload their depth with serviceable middle six guys and not just send up a bunch 605 00:39:57,639 --> 00:40:00,719 of young players to try to develop them. That tells me that they want 606 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,400 to return to the postseason. They don't want to just have another middling year 607 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,199 where they finished twenty first in the NHL. And what that tells me is 608 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,159 that Bennington probably doesn't have a lot of leash. If he comes out of 609 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:15,559 the gate and he doesn't have very good numbers after his first eight, ten, 610 00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:19,360 twelve starts, They're gonna have to turn to Joel Hofer if they want 611 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,960 to get back to the postseason. So it's one of those situations where I'll 612 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,280 freely admit I'm lot a goalie scout, like I don't know the finer technical 613 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,960 points of goaltending, but I do know that team wants to get back to 614 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,639 the playoffs. Like you said, Bennington's been on a pretty much just a 615 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,199 downward trajectory ever since that Cup season. I think it's five on five say 616 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:43,639 percentage has gone down every year since. His goal saved above expected has gone 617 00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:47,280 down nearly every year since. He just hasn't been good at all. And 618 00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:52,320 if his tense start rolls around and he's got like an eight ninety one say 619 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:57,400 percentage, I think it's gonna be Joel Hofer time. And how good St. 620 00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,920 Louis is actually going to be I think it's a fair question to add, 621 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,559 but I'll tell you right now, I would much rather take Joel Holfer 622 00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:08,239 as my fourth goalie than I would want to take Jordan Bennington as a high 623 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:13,599 end backup in fantasy that I just don't think the value was there to make 624 00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:19,079 that work. Nikolai Eelers, now you're singing my tune, Mike, I 625 00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:22,440 love this guy. You don't have to do much to convince me that this 626 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:28,000 Winnipeg winger is just due for a season of everything coming together. Dubois Wheeler 627 00:41:28,159 --> 00:41:32,119 need a writer, have moved out from among Winnipeg's top forwards, presumably leaving 628 00:41:32,159 --> 00:41:37,159 even more opportunity. In eight years in Winnipeg, he has scated sixteen thirty 629 00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:42,280 six a night on average, and last year it was just fifteen thirty nine. 630 00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:45,320 He's lost games to injury, a lot of games to injury for the 631 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,920 last five years, so health obviously is going to be key. What kind 632 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:54,119 of upside do you see for Nikolai Eelers this year? Yeah, I think 633 00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:59,280 when we talk about his twenty two twenty three season, you have to talk 634 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,840 about that injury, right, because yes, his ice time was completely nuke, 635 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,360 but that only happened once he returned from injury. In January. He 636 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,800 got injured. I think it was the second or third game of the season 637 00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:14,239 was he had I'm just checking his game log now. The second game of 638 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,559 the season he played nearly twenty two minutes. It seemed like they were going 639 00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:21,360 to lean on him. Then he got injured. Maybe he wasn't as good 640 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,320 as he could be when he came back, and that's why he was only 641 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:29,320 playing fourteen fifteen minutes at night most times. But the thing with Eilers is 642 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,320 he just needs that ice time. He's been one of the most efficient point 643 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:37,719 producers in the NHL for five years now. He's always not right at the 644 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,840 top, but pretty close to it, if not that far behind, and 645 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,679 points per minute at even strength, it's just that he only gets maybe thirteen 646 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,800 even strength minutes at the most, rather than fourteen, fifteen, sixteen for 647 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,800 some guys. He just hasn't been getting that ice time. I'm wondering if 648 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,440 now is not the time for that to happen, because they don't really have 649 00:42:57,519 --> 00:43:00,559 a lot of They've had a pretty bad bottom six for a number of years 650 00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:02,039 now. I don't think this season's going to be any different. I think 651 00:43:02,039 --> 00:43:06,239 they're really going to have to lean on their top six, like Colorado did 652 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:07,920 last year, though that was more due to injury than anything. But I 653 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:13,159 think you're going to see a number of guys in Winnipeg's top six all over 654 00:43:13,199 --> 00:43:16,239 the twenty minute mark, especially the power play guys, just because they don't 655 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:20,719 have any other options. But Eilers generates a ton of shots. He always 656 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,719 has great shot volume on a per minute basis always very efficient with his production. 657 00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:30,079 He's just been often kept off the power play. That's the big problem 658 00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:32,400 here. It's I hate to keep harping on the same thing, but it's 659 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:37,119 just so important for a player's fantasy value to be able to produce on the 660 00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:42,079 power play. Now, he should be there this season because they did move 661 00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:44,480 out du Ba, they did move out Wheeler. The only guy they brought 662 00:43:44,519 --> 00:43:47,360 in that is a real threat would be Gay Vlarity. So if you see 663 00:43:47,559 --> 00:43:52,480 Schifle and Kyle Connor there probably cold praffiti. I think it makes a lot 664 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,199 of sense to have Nikola Eilers as the fourth. But that's going to be 665 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,320 the crux to all this is if Eilers can get that top power play time, 666 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,079 then yes, he's going to be a tremendous fantasy value. Where he's 667 00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:05,000 being drafted, He's been he's like one hundred and twentieth forward off the board 668 00:44:05,039 --> 00:44:09,800 on ESPN. He's only a low third winger on Underdog. He's not being 669 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,119 drafted highly there at all. Either. If he's playing nineteen twenty minutes at 670 00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:16,119 night with top power play time, like he could easily put up a ninety 671 00:44:16,119 --> 00:44:20,280 point seasons, I think he's definitely one of those guys I want to take 672 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,639 in the back half of drafts to hope that this is final of the season 673 00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:27,559 where he can play eighty games nineteen minutes a game, top power play time, 674 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,199 and really show the upside that he's been that he's been teasing us with 675 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:35,960 for like I said, for about five years now, I can't even blame 676 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,119 palm or reesport anymore. That makes me so mad. All right, let's 677 00:44:38,119 --> 00:44:46,480 take a brief break, come back and go to the Eastern Conference. La, 678 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:59,280 La, there's a weapon that you've gone nay. We talked about the 679 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,119 West now looks the eight picker. I think you have our first contestant up 680 00:45:02,119 --> 00:45:07,119 with it. I sure do, and it's one Michael Matherson. We're going 681 00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:10,960 to start with him best point total and point pace of his career thirty four 682 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,719 points in forty eight games extrapolates to a fifty eight point pace, which is 683 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,079 definitely double what he has done in some of his seasons, a little bit 684 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,719 less than double compared to last season. The question, the legit question, 685 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:27,800 is is he really helping out there, and he's His underlyings are actually pretty 686 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,400 good in terms of his defensive and offensive impacts, actually surprisingly expected goals for 687 00:45:32,639 --> 00:45:37,239 and COURSI is pretty low on the power play, which is a bit surprising. 688 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,599 But you know a lot of this damage that Matheson did was without Cool 689 00:45:39,639 --> 00:45:44,119 Caufield in the lineup, who's obviously a big part of being able to score 690 00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:47,679 there. And you wonder what he's going to be able to do moving forward 691 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:52,320 with this team. Certainly this season it seems like there's no challenges, but 692 00:45:52,119 --> 00:45:57,559 down the road there are some Lane Hudson, David Reinbacher problems and even someone 693 00:45:57,599 --> 00:46:00,400 like Kayden Gooley. I don't know, maybe there's some potential competition there, 694 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:05,920 but I'm assuming it's Matheson's blue line and power play to patrol a mantra all 695 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,960 this season, So I think we can expect some pretty decent things from him. 696 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,800 And it sounds like you agree, Mike. What do you think we 697 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:15,840 can expect from Mathison this season, but then also will his value persist beyond 698 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:20,079 this one? Yeah, I think that's the bigger question is what is his 699 00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:23,440 value going to be in innkeeper dynasty type formats. I don't think it's the 700 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,440 same as this season. This season, there's just no competition for him for 701 00:46:27,519 --> 00:46:30,840 top power play minutes. Laid Hudson, I don't think he's gonna be on 702 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,320 the team this year. They're gonna obviously they're gonna give him another year. 703 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,280 Ryan Boker is not going to be there. I think Jordan Harris might be 704 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,159 a guy that could push him for time eventually, that of the guys that 705 00:46:40,159 --> 00:46:43,800 are on the roster. But that's about it. Like, as long as 706 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,360 Matheson is healthy for this season, he's going to be running the top power 707 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:51,519 play. He did have a big jump in per game production last year, 708 00:46:51,639 --> 00:46:53,719 like you said, by far the best of his career. But it was 709 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:58,920 a confluence of two things. One was the most minute he had ever played 710 00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,280 before. He's at twenty four and a half minutes last year. The previous 711 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:06,400 two previous three seasons he was between eighteen and nineteen minutes, So he basically 712 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,920 added six minutes of ice time in one season per game, which is a 713 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,920 lot. The other is finally running the top power play. I'm just looking 714 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,679 at his numbers right now. From twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two, I 715 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,719 spanned two hundred and fifty two games, he had eleven power play points. 716 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,599 Just last year loan, in forty eight games, he had nine. Running 717 00:47:28,599 --> 00:47:32,599 the top power play makes a huge difference. So if he's I think he's 718 00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:37,119 gonna be playing a lot of minutes again, maybe not pushing for twenty five 719 00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:38,519 minutes, but I definitely think he's gonna be in the twenty three to twenty 720 00:47:38,559 --> 00:47:43,480 four minute range. I've long thought he's been a pretty good defenseman, like 721 00:47:43,519 --> 00:47:45,800 a toolsy type defenseman that just needed time to figure it out and put it 722 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,639 all together. Like he can skate well, he can pass well. He 723 00:47:49,679 --> 00:47:53,079 has good vision, which is sometimes he'd make some pretty obvious mistakes that would 724 00:47:53,119 --> 00:47:57,360 cause turnovers and cause goals against and things like that, and I think that's 725 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,480 what drove his coach is crazy. But I think he's not necessarily fix that 726 00:48:00,599 --> 00:48:05,199 with maturity, but it's certainly gotten a lot better in fantasy, Like you 727 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,039 have the top power play defenseman I think, aside for Matthison, I think 728 00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:12,039 Montreal is going to be a better offensive team than people are giving them credit 729 00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:15,599 for. Like Marty Tennis Saint Louis he has been playing. I want like 730 00:48:15,639 --> 00:48:21,119 the Saint Louis Blues played in those twenty nineteen twenty twenty seasons, where they 731 00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:23,280 might not put up huge shot volume numbers, but they always create a lot 732 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:28,639 of quality chances on the shots that they do get, and I think Mattheson's 733 00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:30,639 gonna be able to reap the rewards off that, both in goals and an 734 00:48:30,639 --> 00:48:37,159 assists. I actually have I finalize my rankings yesterday. The last thing I 735 00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:39,320 have to do is to add in rookies. But Matthieson graded out is my 736 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:45,559 number twenty defenseman in multi CAAP formats. Depending on what site you're drafting him 737 00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:47,800 and what you're drafting room is and all that, you can get him anywhere 738 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:52,280 between the fortieth and sixtieth defenseman off the board, like he's just not being 739 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:58,639 drafted. And even if I'm way too bullish on him, I still think 740 00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:02,360 he's gonna easily be at top forty defenseman in MULTIICAP formats this season. Even 741 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,519 if the Montreal Power play isn't very good because all you need really from him 742 00:49:06,559 --> 00:49:09,639 is about fifteen powerplay points and with his peripherals, they'll do the rest of 743 00:49:09,679 --> 00:49:14,639 the value forim. So I just think he's probably one of the better defense 744 00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:19,599 values that's available right now. And I'm drafting him in basically every lead that 745 00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:22,920 I've done because I asked, like he said, I have him ranked pretty 746 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,599 highly and he's just not going anywhere close to that. So you can wait 747 00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:30,400 till the sixteenth, seventeenth round or whatever and then grab him and you're getting 748 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,880 a number one power play defenseman who has fifty point potential and could put up 749 00:49:35,079 --> 00:49:38,480 triple digit hits and triple digit blocks and get up close to two hundred shots 750 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,199 and all those things. So I just think he's just one of the best 751 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,800 values in fantasy hockey this offseason and needs a defenseman that I want on every 752 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:52,519 single team I have. Love it Boone Jenner. He has long been a 753 00:49:52,519 --> 00:49:57,960 solid guy in the Columbus Blue Jackets lineup, skates over twenty minutes a night, 754 00:49:58,159 --> 00:50:01,559 nearly two hits three shots tonight to go along with twenty six schools nineteen 755 00:50:01,599 --> 00:50:07,079 assists for forty five points in sixty eight games last year. Bad news is 756 00:50:07,559 --> 00:50:13,920 he has missed some time. He's missed fifty two games collectively over the past 757 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,960 three years. What are you expecting from Boone Jenner next year and what makes 758 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,960 him a value in fantasy? Well, the first thing is, like Mattheson, 759 00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:27,159 is he's just not being drafted highly. I did a Best Ball draft 760 00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:30,920 a couple of days ago, and I got him in the very last round. 761 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,800 It was like one hundred and seventy first pick overall or something like that. 762 00:50:35,199 --> 00:50:37,679 So he's just he's and he's not a top fifty center off the board. 763 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:42,199 So if you're starting three centers in twelfteen league, he's a bench center. 764 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,639 So he's just not being drafted. And I get it. You mentioned 765 00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:50,119 the back injuries and those are that's certainly a huge concern, Like something could 766 00:50:50,119 --> 00:50:52,280 flare up at the end of October and he ends up with eleven games played 767 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,760 this season, maybe something bad like Shawkatory and Mark Stone or something like that, 768 00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:00,480 and then he's just not a good fantasy value to anyone. But there's 769 00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:02,239 a couple of things here. The first is the team just doesn't have the 770 00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:07,840 centers yet. Obviously Adam Fantilty's there, and he's going to be a superstar 771 00:51:07,039 --> 00:51:12,679 in fairly short order. I just think asking Fantility to be the number one 772 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:16,360 center on that top power play right now, because faceofts on the power play 773 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,840 matter quite a bit, and I think having Adam Fantilly taking center or taking 774 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,320 faceoffs as the center on the power play is just asking for a lot of 775 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:30,079 lost possessions and that's just something any coach will not stand. So unless Fantility 776 00:51:30,159 --> 00:51:32,239 can show right out of the gate that he can win faceoffs at a fifty 777 00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,679 three or fifty four percent clip, which I really doubt he'll be able to 778 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,199 as an eighteen year old rookie, I just don't see him being the center 779 00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,639 for the top power play. And there's just no one else like Ken Johnson's 780 00:51:42,679 --> 00:51:45,280 not going to do it, Jack Roswick's not going to do it. Obviously, 781 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:46,559 They're not gonna be Sean Coraley on the power play, etc. Etc. 782 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:51,800 There's just no center depth there, so some one of those lack of 783 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,960 options type things. He's a guy where if he does play a full season, 784 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:58,119 he can score thirty goals because he shoots so much and gets those power 785 00:51:58,119 --> 00:52:00,320 play minutes and play so much. Just in general, he's gonna be on 786 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:05,159 the top line. They haven't skating with Johnny Goodrow in training camp. I 787 00:52:05,199 --> 00:52:07,400 don't see any reason why that would change until later in the season. Maybe 788 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,320 they move Vntilly with him or something like that. But he's gonna be at 789 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,440 the very least he's gonna be. He's gonna be in the top six. 790 00:52:14,519 --> 00:52:15,719 He's gonna play a lot of minutes. He's gonna be on the power play. 791 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,000 He brings the peripherals like he shoots, he hits, he brings all 792 00:52:20,039 --> 00:52:23,320 that. I'll just think he's such a tremendous draft value right now that he's 793 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:28,039 one of those guys that I'm drafting as my very last center in those mid 794 00:52:28,199 --> 00:52:30,239 range leagues where there's two hundred and fifty players drafted, He's the guy that 795 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:36,039 I'm drafting is the last center in a lot of them. I definitely agree 796 00:52:36,039 --> 00:52:37,920 with that. And I just wanted to mention that I got Matheson and the 797 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:42,960 best ball I'm doing right now at one forty six, great value. And 798 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,760 this next guy we're going to talk about at one ninety one, and that 799 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:51,119 is Cam York And so I think that's really good value. So I'm already 800 00:52:51,119 --> 00:52:52,599 gonna say I agree with you, But just to give a little background on 801 00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:58,320 York, the Flyers had the worst power play last year fifteen point six percent 802 00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,559 conversion, only thirty five power play goals across the entire team. The powerplay 803 00:53:01,599 --> 00:53:06,079 option the main one there. Tony D'Angelo went back to Carolina, so prime 804 00:53:06,079 --> 00:53:12,320 opportunity. There's certainly the lack of other options there, so obviously there aren't 805 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,480 too many amazing fullwords, Mitchkoff is not going to be there yet and so 806 00:53:16,119 --> 00:53:21,039 it may not be the most amazing powerplay. But York when his sophomore season 807 00:53:21,119 --> 00:53:25,800 featured a small drop in powerplay time but game enhanced. But the enhanced rate 808 00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:30,360 stats in five on five are pretty well across the board. Maybe now is 809 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,519 the time to invest in Cam York long term if you haven't already in three 810 00:53:34,599 --> 00:53:38,559 years, can we expect maybe some dynamic duos to take the league by storm 811 00:53:38,559 --> 00:53:43,079 with some situation with Cam York and some of these strong forwards that they have 812 00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:45,559 there as one of the questions. Obviously down the road, we're thinking, 813 00:53:45,559 --> 00:53:50,679 maybe Mitchkoff is going to light up and Cam York can be the power play 814 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,199 quarterback. I guess that remains to be seen. But for this season, 815 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:58,320 what do you think about York and the kind of powerplay situation there in general 816 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,199 for the Flyers. Yeah, I think a big thing for the Flyers is 817 00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,400 just the health of Sean Contourier. Right. It's tough to talk about them 818 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,960 and without talking about him, because when he's at his best, he is 819 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,559 a true number one center in the NHL. Right, it's just after the 820 00:54:13,639 --> 00:54:15,519 year off with a back injury. He's into his thirties. Now, is 821 00:54:15,559 --> 00:54:19,440 he going to be at his best? That's the big question. If Sean 822 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,559 Contourier starts the season and he looks like the guy he was four years ago 823 00:54:23,679 --> 00:54:29,559 or three years ago, that's just tremendous news for everybody on the Flyers, 824 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:36,199 Travis Knectney and Andel Fairbe, certainly cam York. As he mentioned, Tony 825 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,159 d'angelo's gone. So there's just really no one there who's gonna take top power 826 00:54:39,199 --> 00:54:43,000 play minutes from him, right. I know Rasmus ris Line got power play 827 00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:45,840 minutes down the stretch at the end of last season. I just don't think 828 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,880 he's going to be the one to run the power play game in and game 829 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:52,280 out. Maybe he might get he did get some NetFront time they used him 830 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,440 in the way Boston used the Dano charo once upon a time. But Cam 831 00:54:55,519 --> 00:54:59,639 York's he's going to be the guy to run the top power play unit with 832 00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,519 John Tortorella there, I was real scared how Kim York might actually fair. 833 00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:07,119 But he was one of the younger guys along with Noah Cats that seemed to 834 00:55:07,159 --> 00:55:10,480 earn Tortorella's trust as the year went on, and by the end of the 835 00:55:10,519 --> 00:55:14,960 season, York was playing twenty one to twenty two minutes a night, lack 836 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,920 of options and all that, But it's not they brought in Sean Walker and 837 00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,880 Mark Stall like those are if York's playing well, those aren't guys that are 838 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:22,639 going to take a lot of minutes away from him, right, So there's 839 00:55:22,639 --> 00:55:27,599 just not a whole lot of competition there from him. I think the big 840 00:55:27,599 --> 00:55:30,880 thing to note with him is that even with Tortorella coming in and really stressing 841 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,239 good work in his own end, and he was good in his own end. 842 00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,679 I think that's something that I think that's the reason why Tortorella trusted him, 843 00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,599 because he defended the blue line very well, He got out of the 844 00:55:40,679 --> 00:55:45,280 zone cleanly, very well. He did the things that would limit chances against 845 00:55:45,679 --> 00:55:47,000 and that's why he was playing nearly twenty two minutes by the end of the 846 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,800 season, even though he started the year in the AHL. I just think 847 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,679 he's going to be the guy on the blue line for them in fairly short 848 00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,000 order, and he's certainly going to be the guy to run the top power 849 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,079 play unit. And like I said, if Sean Couturier is back to where 850 00:56:01,079 --> 00:56:06,639 he was, I think Travis Knnecny is one of the most underrated wingers in 851 00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,639 the entire league. I think they'll be able to cobble together. Certainly not 852 00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,920 a good power play, but definitely better than what it was last year. 853 00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:17,679 And you're with a couple more minutes per game. If he's around twenty one 854 00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:22,480 minutes a game, he can push for triple digit hits. He can probably 855 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:23,840 put up like one hundred ten, one hundred and twenty blocks, so he's 856 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:29,400 not gonna hurt you that much in multiicat formats. I just think he's a 857 00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:35,239 guy that could probably get up to that forty forty five point mark, but 858 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,679 also brings some decent peripherals. Maybe not a ton of shots, but definitely 859 00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,840 blocks and hits. And I think it just makes him a good value all 860 00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,480 over the place. Something would have to I think something will have to go 861 00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:46,599 very wrong with his season and the Flyer season for him to not be running 862 00:56:46,639 --> 00:56:53,760 the power play all year long. Oliver Walstrom he messed up his knee halfway 863 00:56:53,760 --> 00:57:00,239 through last year and could be an afterthought to drafters coming into this upcoming year. 864 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:07,800 That said, the Aisles winger across four seasons has He's neither ever played 865 00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:12,679 nearly every game nor scored even a half point per game in his career. 866 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,519 He's pretty consistent with his peripherals, a hit and a half, two shots 867 00:57:15,559 --> 00:57:20,360 per game the half season he did play, and the last chunk of the 868 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,320 season before he went out he was with Matt Barzol, which is pretty nice. 869 00:57:24,639 --> 00:57:28,840 But power play tim and ice has been tough to come by. What 870 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,719 are you expecting from Oliver Wallstrom and how highly should we value him in fantasy 871 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:37,159 drafts? If you had asked me this question five days ago, I would 872 00:57:37,159 --> 00:57:40,880 have had probably had a different answer. And then I saw the training camp 873 00:57:42,719 --> 00:57:45,199 lines that the Islanders have been running, and I think he was. He's 874 00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:50,280 been with Casey Cezekis and Simon Holdstrom all three days in training camp, so 875 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:54,400 far, and that's just not good news. My hope was that he would 876 00:57:54,440 --> 00:58:00,199 somehow get to the top line with Barzol and Horvat. It certainly doesn't look 877 00:58:00,239 --> 00:58:01,960 like it's going to happen out of the gates. Depending on just how deep 878 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,880 the league, your fantasy league is, I think he could. He's probably 879 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,639 somebody you just leave on the waiver wire now. But as you mentioned, 880 00:58:08,679 --> 00:58:12,960 two shots per game and one and a half hits per game while playing twelve 881 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,760 minutes a night is just outstanding peripheral production on a per minutent basis. This 882 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:22,119 is a guy, excuse me, this is a guy who could probably put 883 00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:27,719 up like a two hundred and fifty shot one hundred and fifty hit season if 884 00:58:27,719 --> 00:58:30,920 he was only playing seventeen eighteen minutes a night, Like he doesn't need twenty, 885 00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:35,599 even just seventeen or eighteen. It just really doesn't look like he's going 886 00:58:35,639 --> 00:58:38,559 to get there. To start the season, Stuck on the I would call 887 00:58:38,599 --> 00:58:40,880 it the fourth line. I'm not sure they would, but stuck on the 888 00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:45,280 fourth line to start the year almost certainly the second power play unit. It's 889 00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:49,480 just a role, isn't there for him? Right now? I think he's 890 00:58:49,519 --> 00:58:52,199 still a guy that's putting all those skills together. I talked about Mike Mathenson 891 00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:55,760 being a tools he defenseman. Oliver Walstrom seems like one of those tools. 892 00:58:55,760 --> 00:59:00,039 He forwards like he has the shot you want, he has the aggressiveness that 893 00:59:00,079 --> 00:59:04,480 you want. He's people might see him as a goalscorer, but he's a 894 00:59:04,559 --> 00:59:08,199 very tenacious winger when he wants to be. So I think he has all 895 00:59:08,199 --> 00:59:12,239 those qualities that you want. I just don't. It just doesn't look like 896 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:14,599 the role is going to be there for him just yet. So it was 897 00:59:14,639 --> 00:59:17,239 a lot of wishful thinking for me in the offseason. Maybe they run at 898 00:59:17,239 --> 00:59:22,079 bars All, horvat Walstrom top line, and maybe they get there by December 899 00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:24,199 or something like that. It doesn't look like it's going to be happening. 900 00:59:24,719 --> 00:59:31,119 But this is a guy who has super high end per minute shot rates and 901 00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:36,360 super high end per minute hit rates. He just doesn't play enough minutes. 902 00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,440 And it's a question of is anybody on the Islanders going to hit their fantasy 903 00:59:39,519 --> 00:59:44,360 upside right other than that one huge season Matt bars All had as a rookie 904 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,440 a few years ago. Like, how many guys outside of their goalies can 905 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:51,679 you say have really hit their fantasy upside. Maybe Noah dabs in it as 906 00:59:51,679 --> 00:59:53,760 a twenty year old or twenty one year old defenseman. Other than that, 907 00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:59,599 it's just been a lot of underwhelming seasons. So it's a combinations. Is 908 00:59:59,639 --> 01:00:00,960 it the right environment for him, is he going to get the role, 909 01:00:01,119 --> 01:00:04,840 is he going to earn the coaches trust? I just think there are a 910 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,280 lot of roadblocks for him right now. So unless it's an incredibly I'm still 911 01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:13,159 excited about him. In keeper in dynasty formats, especially dynasty formats like this 912 01:00:13,199 --> 01:00:15,840 is a guy like I would be holding onto him until he's either on the 913 01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:19,880 top line or he's in the cage all four years from now or something like 914 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,440 that. Right this is not a guy because, like I said, his 915 01:00:22,519 --> 01:00:25,079 per minute peripheral production is just way, way too good to give up on. 916 01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,559 It's just a matter of when he gets the role, and it just 917 01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:30,159 doesn't look like it's going to happen out of the gate this season. Let's 918 01:00:30,199 --> 01:00:36,599 just hope it happens maybe around American Thanksgiving or something like that. Yeah, 919 01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,559 you're gonna you're gonna write him to the grave. You can stay on that 920 01:00:39,559 --> 01:00:44,800 train. I know his underlyings look good. But I personally am not with 921 01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,360 you on on Waltz From, but I do that his numbers look good, 922 01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:52,519 and I actually turned that into a couple of the pieces were involved. But 923 01:00:52,519 --> 01:00:55,159 I was able to troll wals From in a couple of other pieces into Timomeyer 924 01:00:55,280 --> 01:01:00,679 in one Dynasty league because people were enamored with those underlying So sometimes it can 925 01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:06,519 be a good thing, as like a trade asset. Sometimes those rate stats 926 01:01:06,559 --> 01:01:08,719 never fully materialized, right. I hope for a whiles from stake that it 927 01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,519 does, but I'm just becoming more and more skeptical as time goes on. 928 01:01:13,039 --> 01:01:16,119 We'll see. Let's move on to the next guy, and that's Joseph Wall. 929 01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:22,440 He is obviously goalie for Toronto case people didn't know, but he is 930 01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:25,719 going to be there with Samsunoff, and they obviously recently signed Martin Jones, 931 01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:30,320 and that's going to be a fun experiment for the Maple Leafs. I know 932 01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:35,599 that samsun Off was the guy. When you look at the underlyings for goal 933 01:01:35,679 --> 01:01:38,639 save above expected, Samsonov was actually really incredible, almost sixteen goals save above 934 01:01:38,639 --> 01:01:44,760 expected in his forty two Experience appearances last season. Eric Shaalgren, who has 935 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:46,840 moved on was also pretty decent, but Wall was right there at three point 936 01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:52,039 four goals above expected, and his delta Fenwick was actually way better than Samsonov's 937 01:01:52,079 --> 01:01:57,119 in his limited seven appearances. I don't trust Martin Jones at all, and 938 01:01:57,199 --> 01:02:00,320 I don't know that the coaching staff does too much and give him some opportunity. 939 01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:05,599 But if they both Sampsonof and Joanes struggle, I don't think that they'll 940 01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:07,880 hesitate too much to look to Wall because he's someone that they have a little 941 01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:13,119 bit more invested in long term. So I'm wondering how you're reading this Toronto 942 01:02:13,199 --> 01:02:17,280 situation. Obviously Samsonov is probably going to get the first NOD and but it 943 01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:21,800 maybe he doesn't represent value for where people might be drafting a goalie. What 944 01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,840 is your take, Mike, Yeah, I think the investment is part of 945 01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,559 it. We talked about that with Jordan Bennington and his contract, and that's 946 01:02:28,599 --> 01:02:31,000 why he might get some run out of the gate from Saint Louis because they 947 01:02:31,039 --> 01:02:34,760 really want to make that money work. It's the opposite in Toronto, right, 948 01:02:35,119 --> 01:02:37,039 three and a half million dollars for just this season for sampson Off and 949 01:02:37,519 --> 01:02:42,880 then he's an unrestricted free agent. Now. It's a new GM in Toronto, 950 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,119 but they're not typically a team that will go and spend a lot of 951 01:02:45,119 --> 01:02:49,320 money on a goalie, So I don't know if they would after the season 952 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,960 unless Sampsonof just has a Besna caliber season, I don't know that they're going 953 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,960 to break the bank for him as a UFA. So I don't think they 954 01:02:57,039 --> 01:03:00,719 really care if he plays sixty games and is awesome for them, rate he 955 01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,960 only plays twenty five games and isn't very good, I don't think they care 956 01:03:04,079 --> 01:03:07,519 very much. They just want any one of their goalies to play well. 957 01:03:07,519 --> 01:03:09,880 You mentioned Samsonof forty two appearances. I think forty starts last year. It 958 01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,719 still doesn't have a season with forty one starts, which would be half the 959 01:03:13,719 --> 01:03:16,320 season. He didn't play half the season in the shortened bubble season either. 960 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:21,559 Like, is Samsonov gonna get to fifty starts this year? I think is 961 01:03:21,559 --> 01:03:24,000 one of those questions. And even if he gets to fifty, that leaves 962 01:03:24,039 --> 01:03:29,280 thirty two other starts. And something that I write about at Dauber Hockey is 963 01:03:30,119 --> 01:03:32,719 when I'm drafting my fantasy teams and I'm getting to my third and fourth goalies, 964 01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:36,639 I would rather have the backup on a good team than the starter on 965 01:03:36,679 --> 01:03:40,119 a bad one. I'd rather have Wall than I would have any goalie in 966 01:03:40,199 --> 01:03:45,119 San Jose Rights or any goalie in Chicago. That's just the way it is. 967 01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:49,519 And they're not married to Samsonov, so it's say, it's the same 968 01:03:49,559 --> 01:03:52,960 thing. It's the same thing with Bennington, even though the contract situations are 969 01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:57,480 different. Samsonov starts for seven out of the first eight games and he's got 970 01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,199 an eight ninety say percentage. It's Joseph waltime. He might be the guy 971 01:04:00,239 --> 01:04:05,039 from there on out. Martin Jones does complicate things. But if it gets 972 01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:09,639 to the point where Martin Jones is getting regular starts for the Toronto may belief, 973 01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:14,960 something has gone horrifically wrong with their season. So I'm not that concerned 974 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:18,000 about him. Like maybe he gets a start in November and then a couple 975 01:04:18,079 --> 01:04:23,239 starts in January, but if he has more than ten starts this year, 976 01:04:24,159 --> 01:04:27,159 something, like I said, something has gone terribly wrong. So he's not 977 01:04:27,199 --> 01:04:30,840 a guy I'm really that concerned about. I think it's more just have him 978 01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,199 around in case one of the guys gets hurt, so then you then you 979 01:04:34,239 --> 01:04:38,960 have a veteran backup NHL goalie. He's not the guy that I'm concerned with 980 01:04:39,079 --> 01:04:42,480 taking starts, but there's some underperformance or something like that. So I just 981 01:04:42,519 --> 01:04:45,480 think Samsonov hasn't had a big workload into season. Yet the team's not married 982 01:04:45,519 --> 01:04:48,840 to him past the season. He's not making a lot of money while is 983 01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:53,280 a guy that he has another year on his contract after this, and then 984 01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,800 he's still a restrictive free agent, so he's going to be in the franchise 985 01:04:57,079 --> 01:05:00,840 probably for at least two more seasons after this one. I just think they 986 01:05:00,039 --> 01:05:02,800 have a lot more incentive to make it work with him than anybody else. 987 01:05:03,119 --> 01:05:06,280 I don't think Martin Jones is a factor, so I don't want to take 988 01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:11,039 sampson Off between the twentieth and twenty fifth goalies. I would rather wait ten 989 01:05:11,119 --> 01:05:13,800 rounds or twelve rounds or whatever it might be in that fantasy draft and then 990 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,519 grab Wall as a late third or in early fourth goalie in my fantasy leagues. 991 01:05:17,719 --> 01:05:20,519 Yeah, definitely here, Yet this is a capital span over here, 992 01:05:20,639 --> 01:05:26,199 just chuckling at those teams that think that samson Off and Bandichek are going to 993 01:05:26,239 --> 01:05:30,840 be able to take dominant starts for a year. There is traveled, there's 994 01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,880 well traveled, and then there is David Perran traveled. That's a whole different 995 01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:39,440 level for this guy. The wingers first season in Detroit was a slight step 996 01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:45,320 back from his seventy point pace thirties two fifty six points in a full eighty 997 01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,679 two. That could be a more Detroit problem than a Purran problem, to 998 01:05:48,719 --> 01:05:51,800 be honest with you. He still gets good hits, good shots. Wouldn't 999 01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:57,440 be hard to imagine an increase in points for Perran this year. How are 1000 01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:02,440 you valuing David Perran the Detroit Void winger? So I'm of two minds here. 1001 01:06:02,679 --> 01:06:08,119 One is I think he's just new due for natural positive regression, because, 1002 01:06:08,199 --> 01:06:10,079 like you said, he took a step back last year. But if 1003 01:06:10,079 --> 01:06:14,159 you look at some of the reasons why. His individual points percentage, which 1004 01:06:14,199 --> 01:06:17,960 is just the percentage of goals he gets a point on when he's on the 1005 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:23,440 ice, it was fifty three percent last year. He hadn't been below sixty 1006 01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,079 percent in any season since the twenty thirteen lockouts, so it's been over a 1007 01:06:27,159 --> 01:06:32,239 decade and he's typically around sixty five percent. So those are that's one of 1008 01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:38,440 those stats that guys can't produce high numbers year after year, like Connor McDavid 1009 01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:42,079 will be around eighty percent year after year because he's Connor McDavid sold kill rolcaps 1010 01:06:42,079 --> 01:06:45,800 Off and all those types of guys. But for the non super league guys, 1011 01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:49,400 they're typically pretty stable. But then you'll just have wild fluctuations. So 1012 01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:53,679 there are seasons where David prom has been in the mid seventies and now he's 1013 01:06:53,679 --> 01:06:56,519 had one season where he's in the mid fifties. If he gets back to 1014 01:06:56,639 --> 01:07:01,159 sixty five percent, he could probably add five or six points by just natural 1015 01:07:01,199 --> 01:07:05,719 regression in individual points percentage alone. And then you look at his power play 1016 01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:11,440 production, it was a six year low and points per minute on the power 1017 01:07:11,519 --> 01:07:15,480 play by twenty eight percent, so wasn't just a six year low, it 1018 01:07:15,519 --> 01:07:19,559 was a six year low by far. But then the team went and added 1019 01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:24,679 Alex the brink Cat and Shane gost Despair and whatever people might think of Shane 1020 01:07:24,719 --> 01:07:27,719 gost Despair as an overall defense, and he's a guy that can run a 1021 01:07:27,719 --> 01:07:30,599 good top power play. I think that's a big boost for them on the 1022 01:07:30,599 --> 01:07:32,880 blue line for the top power play unit. And they add a real good 1023 01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:35,280 finisher and Alex to brink CAATs. So now all of a sudden, you 1024 01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:41,280 have Larkin, Pearan Raymond, the Brink Cat, and gost Despair that has 1025 01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,480 the makings of a decent power play unit. So I think there's gonna be 1026 01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,519 some regression positive regression in his power play production as well. Just the brain 1027 01:07:47,599 --> 01:07:53,000 Cat and gostep spaar making the power play better, and just a rebounding individual 1028 01:07:53,039 --> 01:07:58,039 points percentage has me giving him, has ME giving him a projection of over 1029 01:07:58,119 --> 01:08:01,719 sixty points. So I think David Prom is a sixty point threat this season. 1030 01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,880 And he's also a guy that can put up two hundred shots and one 1031 01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:09,360 hundred hits. He's just one of those boring one hundred and fiftieth pick two 1032 01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:13,639 hundred pick overall. Whatever it is in your particular draft that you can probably 1033 01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,439 plug in in case there's an injury, some results on your team, or 1034 01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:20,159 in case a younger guy underperforms or gets moved down the lineup or anything like 1035 01:08:20,199 --> 01:08:25,319 that, then you got David Prom waiting to go. And if the powerplay 1036 01:08:25,399 --> 01:08:28,079 is even better than we think it's going to be, he could probably be 1037 01:08:28,119 --> 01:08:31,800 a top one hundred player in multiicap formats. The one thing that concerns me 1038 01:08:32,039 --> 01:08:36,560 is him playing with Andrew Cops so far in training cam Copp was real bad 1039 01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:40,880 last season. He typically not been as good as a center as he has 1040 01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:45,000 been as a winger. If Cop doesn't turn to his game around and parn 1041 01:08:45,119 --> 01:08:48,119 is playing with him for sixty sixty five percent of the year, I have 1042 01:08:48,199 --> 01:08:51,880 some questions about how well he'll produce it even strength, but I do think 1043 01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:56,680 that he's in for some natural positive regression. I think sixty points is an 1044 01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:00,000 expectation for him if he can get back to the eighty game mark eighty games 1045 01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:02,399 played. So I really like David Pronze just one of those safety valve guys 1046 01:09:02,399 --> 01:09:05,520 that you take as insurance in case, like I said, in case one 1047 01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:10,920 of your younger wingers doesn't live up to expectations or somebody else gets hurt or 1048 01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:15,920 something like that. Yeah, definitely. And the last guy I'm gonna ask 1049 01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:21,159 you about mikey Asimott, and he's someone who was pretty traveled last year. 1050 01:09:21,159 --> 01:09:25,039 Before last season, he played one game exactly in the NHL, and he 1051 01:09:25,079 --> 01:09:30,199 played fifty four last season, split amongst Winnipeg, San Jose and Tampa Bay. 1052 01:09:30,399 --> 01:09:32,680 And he was all over the place on those teams in terms of deployment, 1053 01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:36,560 and obviously the depth chart and San Jose was pretty low when he was 1054 01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:42,000 there, but overall twenty three point pace in his two stints. But I 1055 01:09:42,039 --> 01:09:45,079 think the big thing is two hits, over two hits per game and over 1056 01:09:45,119 --> 01:09:48,039 two shots per game, and actually a decent number of blocks almost half a 1057 01:09:48,079 --> 01:09:51,960 block per game, which is pretty good peripheral coverage. He's an excellent play 1058 01:09:53,039 --> 01:09:55,920 driver. When you look at his underlines, he really is someone you can 1059 01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:59,560 put on a line and he can help give defensive responsibility. And you look, 1060 01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,279 the lines in Tampa are a little bit thinned out. Obviously, we 1061 01:10:01,319 --> 01:10:05,000 know that in the main four of point Kutra, Stamkos, even Hegel's in 1062 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:09,760 that group now, but they might blend that top six and he might get 1063 01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:14,079 some opportunity in there. Obviously, other options are guys like Sherry Soarelli is 1064 01:10:14,079 --> 01:10:16,319 going to play center, and then Nick Paul Tenner one of those, one 1065 01:10:16,319 --> 01:10:19,119 of those guys is going to get some producing opportunities and it might be a 1066 01:10:19,199 --> 01:10:23,920 Smont. I'm guessing that's where you're going with this, some deployment with those 1067 01:10:24,079 --> 01:10:28,399 big four. What do you think about a Smont? First thinks first I 1068 01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,359 just think he just to talk about the bottom six. I think he's gonna 1069 01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,840 I was actually looking at the line combinations this morning and they had Sheery on 1070 01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:40,159 the second line with stamp cost and Soarelli and then on the third and Semon 1071 01:10:40,239 --> 01:10:45,239 on the fourth. But it just highlights their depth problem at that position. 1072 01:10:45,279 --> 01:10:48,000 Past Kutrov right, no offense to Connor Shery. I do like him as 1073 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,840 a player. He's a guy I would probably want him my fourth line if 1074 01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:54,239 I was a Cup contender. I don't want him on my second line. 1075 01:10:54,239 --> 01:10:57,439 If I'm on Cup contender. I don't think Connor Shery's a long term answer 1076 01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:00,520 on that second line. The other thing is is I just think he's gonna 1077 01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:03,039 play his way ahead of Tanner j know, like he did that last year. 1078 01:11:03,079 --> 01:11:06,479 Now he can probably talk that out to Jau coming back from injury and 1079 01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:12,600 he wasn't the same guy. But Simon legitimately played well in Winnipeg, in 1080 01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:15,960 San Jose and in Tampa Bay, and you saw him get rewarded with that. 1081 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,840 He got sent to the World Championships last year for Team USA. Now 1082 01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:23,279 I know World Championships, they're not sending their a roster maybe not even their 1083 01:11:23,319 --> 01:11:27,000 B roster. But just the fact that he made it there when he was 1084 01:11:27,039 --> 01:11:30,000 a guy that was on waivers like seven months earlier, should probably tell us 1085 01:11:30,079 --> 01:11:34,359 that he was a better player than maybe he got credit for earlier in his 1086 01:11:34,399 --> 01:11:39,760 career. He just two things. One is he shoots a lot. He 1087 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:44,479 was tenth in the league. It's shot rate last year per minute in line 1088 01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,640 with guys like Tyler Toffoley and Nasm Caddri on a per minute pieces, so 1089 01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:51,279 he'll shoot a lot. And Walstrom even at twelve minutes at night, he 1090 01:11:51,279 --> 01:11:56,000 could probably put up two shots per game, which is useful enough in fantasy 1091 01:11:56,039 --> 01:11:59,840 when you're looking at in very deep leagues. He does drive the play extremely 1092 01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,520 while or he did last year. As you mentioned, The problem is, 1093 01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:08,079 I don't think he's a terribly skilled player. There's a difference between good four 1094 01:12:08,199 --> 01:12:11,760 checking, being able to clear the zone, meshing well with your teammates and 1095 01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:15,720 all that, and being able to actually score goals like those are two completely 1096 01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:20,079 different things. Simont did not have good shooting percentages in the HL, has 1097 01:12:20,119 --> 01:12:25,039 not had good shooting percentages in the NHL. I think he's probably a guy 1098 01:12:25,079 --> 01:12:30,239 that just won't ever score thirty goals unless something goes really really something really goes 1099 01:12:30,319 --> 01:12:32,800 his way gets really lucky for a year. But I just think the peripherals 1100 01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:36,640 and the hits that he can bring in deeper formats will certainly play well. 1101 01:12:38,399 --> 01:12:43,199 And I think he might be their second best right winger after Nikita Kutrop. 1102 01:12:43,239 --> 01:12:45,840 I think he's better this year. I think he's definitely better than Tanners, 1103 01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:48,079 you know, and they're gonna they're gonna try him out on the fourth line, 1104 01:12:48,079 --> 01:12:50,840 but we saw it last year. He just bul rushed his way to 1105 01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:55,199 their third line because he was playing better than anybody else that they had on 1106 01:12:55,239 --> 01:12:57,960 the roster. And I think that's going to be the case again this year. 1107 01:12:58,039 --> 01:13:00,199 I think he's in line for at least third line, and it's if 1108 01:13:00,239 --> 01:13:03,720 not getting up to the second line at times, because I could see him 1109 01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:09,039 just wreaking havoc on the four check with Anthony Sarelli. So he's a guy 1110 01:13:09,159 --> 01:13:13,800 that he really opened my eyes last year just to how good he is. 1111 01:13:14,359 --> 01:13:16,239 I don't know if he's ever going to be like a sixty five or seventy 1112 01:13:16,239 --> 01:13:18,520 point winger, but I think he's definitely a guy that can put up like 1113 01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:24,840 fifteen goals thirty five points in a minimal role. But then bring the periphles 1114 01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,840 in the shots and the hits that will play well, especially in salary cap 1115 01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:31,880 formats where he's so cheap. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the Drew 1116 01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:36,760 O'Connor portion of the program. Everybody shout out loud, what team Drew O'Connor 1117 01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:41,840 plays for? Nope, sorry, you're thinking of Logan O'Connor. Drew O'Connor 1118 01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:45,479 actually plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He is in his fourth year there. 1119 01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,720 The good news is this guy's rate stats are tremendous. His shots per sixty 1120 01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:55,079 at even strength for the Penguins last year was fourth out of twenty three qualifiers 1121 01:13:55,119 --> 01:13:58,840 on the team, and his hits per sixty what's six. The bad news 1122 01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:01,119 is he played below ten minutes a night. But what do you see for 1123 01:14:01,359 --> 01:14:08,439 Drew O'Connor for the coming year and why should I consider drafting him? The 1124 01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:13,000 first thing is he's it's that shot right, Like you mentioned, he just 1125 01:14:13,039 --> 01:14:15,640 put us up a lot of shots in a very low amount of minutes. 1126 01:14:16,039 --> 01:14:19,960 I was looking at his HL performance seventy three HL games, he had two 1127 01:14:20,039 --> 01:14:25,239 hundred forty five shots so over an eighty two game season, you're looking at 1128 01:14:25,279 --> 01:14:28,399 like two hundred and eighty shots or something like that. That's just monster shot 1129 01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:30,640 production. Now, obviously he's not gonna get there playing ten minutes a game, 1130 01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,119 which he has been so far at his Pittsburgh ten yere. But that 1131 01:14:33,239 --> 01:14:36,880 Jake Genzel injury I think is something to that we really have to mention here. 1132 01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:41,439 Now. Karl Dubis came out and said like a month ago that they 1133 01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:44,800 only expect him to maybe miss five games and then Getzel should be back. 1134 01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:46,680 So maybe Genzel's back on the top line by the end of October, right, 1135 01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:51,600 and it's no big deal. But injuries linger injuries. Guys have setbacks. 1136 01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:55,960 Guys aren't the same player that they are when they come back from injury. 1137 01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:59,039 We talked about Nikolai Eilers just earlier on this podcast. Look at what 1138 01:14:59,079 --> 01:15:01,720 happened to him last year, Right, played twenty two minutes, got hurt, 1139 01:15:02,039 --> 01:15:04,920 came back, and then was playing fourteen fifteen minutes a game. I 1140 01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:08,720 don't think that's gonna happen with Genzel. That's not what I'm assuming here. 1141 01:15:09,079 --> 01:15:13,520 It's just something that happens all the time with injuries. The shot rate is 1142 01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,079 one two is that opportunity. So far, I think in camp they've had 1143 01:15:16,159 --> 01:15:20,560 Vinnie Hinnis Strozza playing alongside Sidney Crosby, which kind of tells you that they're 1144 01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:26,199 really looking for guys to play alongside Sidney Crosby until Jake Getzel gets back. 1145 01:15:26,399 --> 01:15:29,079 I like Henna Stroza, I don't think he's the answer. He was a 1146 01:15:29,079 --> 01:15:31,399 guy that I was high on when he was in Arizona, and I thought 1147 01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:34,319 he might break through and Buffalo, but it just never materialized. And I'm 1148 01:15:34,359 --> 01:15:38,960 gonna be honest, if you're playing with Tage Thompson or Dylan Cousins or even 1149 01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:43,560 now Casey Middlestadd or whatever and you can't produce, I have real questions whether 1150 01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:45,960 Sidney Crosby, even Sidney Crosby at this point, is a guy that can 1151 01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:48,720 make Hitnistros and produced. I just don't think Hennistros is going to be the 1152 01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:53,000 answer there. And they just don't have a lot of options other than that. 1153 01:15:53,079 --> 01:15:55,720 Like they seem to want to put Riley Smith with a Genny Maulkin, 1154 01:15:56,359 --> 01:15:59,960 which I think makes sense because Riley Smith is is He's a good playmate. 1155 01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:01,520 I don't think he gets enough credit for that. So I think he can 1156 01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,079 help set up Mulkin, and he'll help Maulkin more in that sense than he 1157 01:16:05,079 --> 01:16:09,800 would help Crosby. I think putting Joe Connor would Crosby just makes a lot 1158 01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:13,760 of sense because O'Connor likes to shoot, and they need some guy that can 1159 01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:18,199 shoot, typically not a high percentage shooter. Hopefully Sidney Crosby can fix that. 1160 01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:21,560 We'll see how trading camp goes, but I don't think it'll be that 1161 01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:26,159 long until we see Droue connor skating with Sidney Crosby. Now whether that lasts 1162 01:16:26,359 --> 01:16:29,640 but won't last once Jake Gensel gets back. But again, if there's any 1163 01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,640 sort of setback with his injury, or maybe he has to take another couple 1164 01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:35,720 of weeks, maybe they expected five games miss but it's actually fifteen games missed. 1165 01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:40,319 I think due O'Connor could have some sneaky value at least through the first 1166 01:16:40,359 --> 01:16:43,399 couple of weeks this season, if not the first month, depending on how 1167 01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,479 things go with Gensel. And again in those salary cap formats where you're looking 1168 01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:50,640 for the real cheap guys that can produce even if you only get fifteen good 1169 01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:53,920 games out of him, I think Joe Connor is a guy that you'll want 1170 01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:59,479 to keep an eye on in Pittsburgh. Wonderful, wonderful deep digs on some 1171 01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:01,960 of these guys. Michael, why don't you tell people how they can keep 1172 01:17:02,039 --> 01:17:05,359 up with all of your work over at Dauber and anywhere else you want to 1173 01:17:05,359 --> 01:17:10,039 plug. Yeah, like you said, I write over at Dauber Hockey Dauber 1174 01:17:10,119 --> 01:17:13,760 hockey dot com. We have our fantasy Guide out. I contributed a few 1175 01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:16,479 parts to a Dauber still does most of the work himself, but it's over 1176 01:17:16,520 --> 01:17:21,479 at Dauber Hockey. So if you're looking for we have projections for several hundreds 1177 01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:26,479 of players. We have depth charts of prospect prospects that might make their way 1178 01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:30,520 up, sleepers and breakouts and disappointments and all that. Anybody needs some help, 1179 01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,239 just head on over Dabara hockey dot com. I have articles up every 1180 01:17:32,239 --> 01:17:35,720 Tuesday and Thursday morning, and then every other Friday if you're looking for my 1181 01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:40,520 specific days. Also, as I mentioned earlier, Victor and I are both 1182 01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:44,319 now at Lead Prospects, So I'm at ep ringside dot com. I believe 1183 01:17:44,319 --> 01:17:45,600 you have to have a membership there, but there are a lot of great 1184 01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:49,520 writers that make it and that make it very well worthwhile. I'll be there 1185 01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:55,159 a couple of times a week doing fantasy profiles and role changes and those types 1186 01:17:55,199 --> 01:17:58,600 of things, so you can catch me there. Lastly, once the season 1187 01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:01,479 gets started, I actually folk us on daily fantasy hockey more than anything else, 1188 01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:04,119 so draft kings and vandueling those types of things, and I do that 1189 01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:10,079 over at stochastic dot com. I usually I'll have articles and videos up usually 1190 01:18:10,119 --> 01:18:13,560 Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays at the very least, if not more, 1191 01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,319 throughout the week. Lots of ways to catch me and whether you're just looking 1192 01:18:16,319 --> 01:18:19,760 for season on fantasy or daily fantasy or what have you, I write about 1193 01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:26,000 it all. So a whole lot going on this season outstanding. Thank you 1194 01:18:26,039 --> 01:18:28,920 so much for coming on the show today. Yeah, thanks guys, Thanks 1195 01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:30,840 Jesse, thanks Victor. Appreciate you guys having me. Good luck to you 1196 01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,399 guys this season. I don't know what it is. I'm really excited for 1197 01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:36,800 this year. This is the most excited I've been for the start of a 1198 01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:42,319 hockey season, probably since before COVID, And maybe that's part of it, 1199 01:18:42,359 --> 01:18:45,239 is just a little bit of a return to normalcy. But yeah, I'm 1200 01:18:45,239 --> 01:18:57,439 really jazzed about this season. Good luck in your league and good luck well 1201 01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:01,920 good talking about some draft. It's almost draft time. We've been talking to 1202 01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:04,960 a lot of teams, but coming up a couple more teams, a whole 1203 01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:09,119 lot of draft talk. A couple of things to remind you of before we 1204 01:19:09,159 --> 01:19:12,239 get out of here today. Fantracks dot com is the place to play all 1205 01:19:12,239 --> 01:19:15,039 of your fantasy sports. They've got ten different ones, and if you're getting 1206 01:19:15,079 --> 01:19:18,199 ready to start a fantasy hockey league, if it's that time, you can 1207 01:19:18,319 --> 01:19:24,479 start yourself up a free one over at fan tracks. Got all the features 1208 01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:28,199 that you're gonna want, literally hundreds of scoring settings. Yes, if you're 1209 01:19:28,239 --> 01:19:30,279 sitting up a dynasty league, it's the place you're gonna want to go because 1210 01:19:30,279 --> 01:19:34,359 of the customization, the deep rookie pools, all those types of things. 1211 01:19:34,399 --> 01:19:38,760 I think right now too, there's a tweet out there that if you retweet 1212 01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:43,760 it, you can win an autographed Austin Matthews jersey. So that's pretty cool. 1213 01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:47,279 Good things for them to do. We are part of the Fantracks podcast 1214 01:19:47,399 --> 01:19:53,039 network. Fan tracks HQ is the content arm of fantracks, and they have 1215 01:19:53,079 --> 01:19:56,880 all kinds of cool stuff. They are fantasy hockey articles for days coming out 1216 01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:59,800 right now in the written form. You should check out some of the great 1217 01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:03,199 new authors that we have on the site. There are other podcasts, especially 1218 01:20:03,279 --> 01:20:10,920 fantasy football and fantasy baseball related that you can be checking out on the network 1219 01:20:11,119 --> 01:20:18,000 as well. We're part of the Dauber Podcast Network in addition to the Fantracks 1220 01:20:18,039 --> 01:20:21,880 one. And you heard Michael Clifford, a friend of ours from the Dauber 1221 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:27,039 side of the house. Of course, Victor writes over there at Dauber you 1222 01:20:27,119 --> 01:20:30,920 should be listening to all the cool stuff they have there, including what Victor 1223 01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:35,319 does over at Dauber Prospects as an editor. Victor has a second podcast on 1224 01:20:35,399 --> 01:20:41,760 the Dauber Podcast Network. It's called Dauber Prospect Report, and he does it 1225 01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,920 with Peter Harling and they talk about all kinds of cool things on there. 1226 01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,479 It's a good compliment to what we do here on this show. I do 1227 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:51,920 a second podcast it's called Dynasty Sports Life, and on it I do all 1228 01:20:53,039 --> 01:20:57,960 kinds of different dynasty sports, not just hockey, but baseball, basketball, 1229 01:20:58,039 --> 01:21:02,039 football. This week, I'm going to talking with a guy Ksey Bubba, 1230 01:21:02,119 --> 01:21:06,399 who is a man about town. He podcasts all over the place, he 1231 01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:10,560 writes all over the place, and he and I are going to look back 1232 01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:14,520 on the fantasy baseball season and see what we have learned, especially as it 1233 01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:18,680 might apply to our dynasty baseball league. So you can follow that dynasty sports 1234 01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:24,640 life out there wherever podcasts are sold. It's not sold, it's free, 1235 01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:27,880 but you know what I mean. Also, you should be following Victor and 1236 01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:31,840 myself on X at fan Hockey Life is me at Victor Nuno twelve as Victor. 1237 01:21:32,359 --> 01:21:35,039 You know, I'm starting to think people are always complaining that they call 1238 01:21:35,079 --> 01:21:40,199 it X. I think that complaining about Twitter being renamed X as the new 1239 01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:44,479 complaining about airplane food from jokes of twenty five years ago. That's just my 1240 01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:48,800 opinion. Also, you should rate reviews, subscribe to this podcast. There 1241 01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,600 are many places you can do it. You could do it over on Apple 1242 01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:56,800 Podcasts, Spotify, wherever else you get your podcast. Thank you for listening. 1243 01:21:57,119 --> 01:22:00,600 We're ready for you to draft. We're ready to draft ourselves and until 1244 01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:15,560 next time, Until next time, keep living that fantasy hockey alife.